Oh that is not a downer. It's a way for all of here to give some prayers now for her. It's nice that you have taken this on, many people have also. Keep up the good work! Has she stopped smoking? Did she smoke while pregnant? It's a sad story
Originally Posted by WearThePinkRibbon
That I do not have breast cancer. About two months ago one of my friends was diagnosed with breast cancer. Too make a long story short, it should have been caught earlier than it was. She felt a lump, went to the doctor, and they did everything short of the ONE THING that could make a definite diagnosis(a biopsy), and sent her on her way telling her she was fine. (Okay, maybe this won't be so short...) A couple of months later she gets pregnant, and as you might expect, her boobs got bigger. Well, at around the 4th month, she lost the baby. When her boobs shrank back down, the lump was so huge (relatively speaking) that it was obvious something was wrong. So the docs finally did a biopsy, and guess what...it was cancer all along. That a friend of mine who is young (37) gets breast cancer was heartbreaking. But what shook me to my core and made me decide I needed to be involved spreading awareness, is how the medical system f*cked up on this. You see, this woman was in practically every high risk category that exists for women righ regard to breast cancer. Any one of them should have caused her doctor to insist on a biopsy. She has a family history of breast cancer, she is a long term smoker, she's a long term birth control pill user, and she has large, dense breasts, which make it harder to detect lumps with (just a) mammogram. Now she's had a double radical mastectomy, after which she was told she has a less than 50% chance of survival past two years. It seems the cancer has metastisized. Who knows if things would have been different had the surgery been done sooner. She is a single mother with two boys and a brand new mortgage. She's just started a particularly aggressive program of radiation and chemotherapy. And even with that, they still give her a less than 50% chance of being alive in two years. Sorry to be such a downer, but you asked!