Breast Cancer - Radiation-induced Agony And Metastases - Part 1
Posted on March 16, 2008 - Filed Under Health and Fitness | Leave a Comment
Gene (not real name) is the fifth child in a family of six girls and two boys. Her eldest sister, the first sibling in the family, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of twenty-seven. Unfortunately, Gene was also diagnosed with breast cancer at twenty-seven years old.
Gene’s problem started in mid-December 2002, when she found a lump in her right breast. She went to see a surgeon in a private hospital and did a lumpectomy. Gene was given the good news that the lump was not malignant. The histopathology report dated 17 December 2002, stated: “Sclerosing adenosis of the breast with atypical ductal hyperplasia. Advised periodic follow up.” The immuno-histochemical stains were negative for ER, PR, c-erbB2.
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