I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at the age of 44. It happened to be a huge tumor of 3 to 4 cm, and I didn’t know it was there. I had a lump in my left breast which I knew was a cyst that I had for many years. . my G.P. appointment arranged at the chest care center did not examine me in a hurry and told him it was a cyst.
Three weeks after the clinic, I obtained a routine mammogram. It had only been 14 months since I had finally been one so little worried that I sat reading the usual books in the interstitial room. I was called in to see a doctor who told me that I had a mass in my right breast that they were very concerned about. I didn’t realize it was my left breast, I said there was nothing wrong with the right. The Doctor’s face was grave. I felt like screaming, but instead I lay there numbly while the radiographer placed a guide on my right chest and proceeded with the ultrasound.
I clearly saw a mass appearing on the screen, they looked at me with a white image, I heard the x-ray say “calcification” and I knew what this was, “It’s not cancer” I told the doctor. He looked at me gently, but did not answer the question because he said that he was now doing a biopsy, that they did a painful procedure, that he took a sample of the tumor. A delay was made the following week for the issue.
I stood in front of the bedroom mirror and looking at my chest I could not see anything unusual, I took my arms and then I saw. the right breast‘s exterior was not longer rounded, but pulled out in the form of a lip which deformed the figure inside. I sat on the bed and cried out what and how I should tell my family.
A week later the Breast Cancer was confirmed and arrangements were made for admission to the hospital. Eight days later an operation was performed to remove this complicated tumor, removing half of the breast and all the lymph nodes in in my arm pit. A few days later I was told that although the cancer had spread to my breast and I would need a mastectomy, some good news self-examination of your breasts and make sure you study them in the mirror and note any changes in shape and if something is wrong go and get checked earlier and better save if you do become Cancer.
