My Experience of Breast Cancer

WHY AM I WRITING THIS? ---------------------- At the beginning of the summer my mother and father went on holiday to Italy . Whilst on holiday there my mother noticed that she had a lump in her left breast, she found it quite by accident and didn’t worry about it too much. She had had a previous lump 20 years ago that was not cancerous and just assumed that this would be the same. To say the truth we all assumed that this would be the case. She went to see her local G.P and a week later she had a hospital appointment to have tests to see what the lump was. In actual fact the lump didn’t even feel like a lump it felt more like just a ...

I feel like a bit of an imposter writing this here, since I've never suffered from any form of cancer. But something that doesn't stand out as much in many opinions is how much friends and relatives are affected when a loved one suffers from this disease. Many a time I've heard that breast cancer is considered one of the "less serious" diseases, which makes me angry. 43,000 women die each year from this disease, and apparently it's 'not serious'. My mother suffered from breast cancer when I was just 11, but it's still one of the most prominent things in my mind. The question 'why?' pops up every day, and ...

I was in the bath in June 1998 when I found a lump, I panicked and refelt, yes it was definately a lump. I waited until my partner arrived home and I asked him to feel, yes he felt it as well. Goodness me its the end of the world, no ive grandchildren to see grow up! The next morning he rang the doctors and I got in later that day. He then got me into the rapid breast clinic 4 days later at 8pm at night. They took some mammograms and askd me to wait. They invited me into a consulting room where they showed me the results, a large lump and an even larger one lurking underneath. They took 5 biopsies, the noise of these worse than the actual test. ...