Lump to Breast Cancer - Alison | Triple Positive Breast Cancer | The Patient Story

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Alison discovered a lump during a postpartum checkup just 10 days after breastfeeding ended. Though breast changes were expected, she felt overwhelming anxiety each time she felt the lump. Further tests like an ultrasound, mammogram, and biopsy raised cancer suspicions. Within 48 hours, she was diagnosed with stage 1A triple positive breast cancer.
In this cancer vlog, she candidly describes the overwhelming emotions of facing a cancer diagnosis with two young kids, the tough decisions like undergoing a double mastectomy, and the grueling treatments including chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
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@carolbraswell4488 2 месяца назад

I just finished all my breast cancer treatments. I choose not to do hormone blockers for me. I was diagnosed 2/15/23 with invasive ductal carcinoma stage 1, triple positive, no lymph nodes involved. I had a lumpectomy followed by chemo and then radiation. I did 9 months of herceptin only. It's a rough journey, but doable. I'm a 65 year old grandma of 15 grandchildren!! They keep me on my toes and I'm so grateful for that! Thank you for sharing your story ❤️

@Ceerads 2 месяца назад

Mine was also triple positive. My protocol was similar to yours, though I did do 4.5 years of Tamoxifen and then 5.5 years after of Letrozole (Femara). I was 51 at the time of dx and am now 75.

@24JJ821 Месяц назад

@@Ceerads You gave me a sense of relief reading this, my twin was diagnosed with HER2 positive breast cancer stage II when she was 51 (we are now 53) and she is in remission now. It's scary to read about it. I'm so happy you have been in remission and continue to be, it's good to hear the positive stories too x

@Ceerads Месяц назад

@@24JJ821 Thank you so much! Yes, HER2-positive is scary, but there are Herceptin and newer treatments available, though I never was offered them back in 1999, because my hospital (Memorial Sloan Kettering) wasn’t giving Herceptin to anyone but stage IV breast cancer patients back then. And even without that I’ve been okay, though always wary, even after so many years. I wish your twin sister and you good health from now on. Sending hugs from Brooklyn. And x.

@eon7125 2 месяца назад

We need to get the greatest minds together around the world to solve this desease once and for all.. 🙏.. Best from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@nancybee250 2 месяца назад

Glad to hear you were proactive about your lump! My daughter was 28When she had swollen lymph nodes and a breast lump And over the course of 18 months she had3 ultrasounds 2 mammograms And a surgical consult in And a surgical consultant everyone told her She just had a fiber made omw That didn't need to be biopsied. After 18 months she went to a city hospital and was diagnosed with breast cancer also triple positive and when they did genetic testing she also is a chek 2 carrier. My mother had a great aunt And a cousin with breast cancer. My mom is 94 and has never had cancer but we found out that she also has chek 2 As well as myself and my son. Genetic testing is important. My daughter ended up having 6 rounds of chemo a double mastectomy And 12 rounds of immunotherapy. She is doing great But cancer is always such an anxiety producer. Best of luck to you!

@donnanickerson1531 2 месяца назад

I am Chek 2 positive as well but did not learn until after I had my mastectomy. I am now going to have my other breast removed. I keep getting tests that are concerning. I can't keep going through this. They do check other areas of concern because Chek2 can cause thyroid and colon cancer as well. So I have a cancer team and they check everything throughout the year. Good Luck to you! :)

@sylviacrowley2331 2 месяца назад

You have such a calm and reassuring voice. Allison means “Truth” and you speak it so well. My youngest daughter is Allison. You are a treasure!

@JJ-kf4kc 2 месяца назад

She is very lucky that she was able to get top medical care receiving a biopsy just hours after her ultrasound which she was able to secure right away. She's very fortunate a lot of people need to wait weeks if not months for this.....

@seooh_ 2 месяца назад

She is very lucky cause she's got triple positive type. No matter how early you get diagnosed if it is triple negative...

@truthsocial7338 2 месяца назад

She must have good med insurance.

@cristianasaras6898 2 месяца назад

Usually in the breast centers that’s how it works if you get called back they will do ultrasound and then biopsy. I had one had ultrasound and then sent for a biopsy within a week but it’s a breast center only

@danielaionescu9473 2 месяца назад

Indeed, she is very lucky because that hospital was her workplace, and everybody knew her. I struggled so much with incompetency, doctors' complacency, and carelessness in my case, being with Kaiser Permanente, which is a nightmare for a cancer patient. I was misdiagnosed for 1.5 years despite the fact that I kept going back and telling them that it's something wrong with my breast. In Allison's case, she knew her coworkers, and they took excellent care of her.

@commonsense6967 2 месяца назад

So glad you caught it and got treatment right away.

@mikeballard8404 2 месяца назад

What an honest and brave young lady.

@troutjunkie7330 2 месяца назад

Crazy how cancer can run in the family. I have huge family, well over hundred second cousins, grandparents had lots of siblings (farmers) and no one with cancer ever which is statistically impossible. All mine grandparents and my parent's uncles and aunts died from other causes. Most smoked and drank. All my cousins and second cousins are now in late 50s and 60s. Still no cancer.

@kimbeeau 2 месяца назад

So many young people getting cancer😢

@polarvortex6601 2 месяца назад

because safe and effective 💉💉💉💉

@splash6427 2 месяца назад

🙏 ❤️ 🙏 Always For You & All

@HappyComfort 2 месяца назад

You’re a very encouraging person! You’re good for others! Thank you so much for sharing your experience! 🌷🥰👍

@maryroberts9315 2 месяца назад

You have such a positive energy and "can do" attitude. You must be great at your job!

@harleyriderstitcher3951 2 месяца назад

My lump was next to my nipple. I had a double mastectomy as well. We tried implants immediately but after 2 weeks, I had to have them removed as there was too much trauma. I had 4 rounds of chemo and now I have a pill I take once a day for 5 years. I am grateful I went thru all this. My marriage is very strong and better than it has ever been. I met many wonderful nurses, doctors and support people that I love. My expanders will be done in April. I am in remission and after 2 years I can say cancer free. I am tested monthly right now but thats good. Keep on keeping on! We've got this!!!!

@plaidpaisley5918 2 месяца назад

There is a you tuber (she has an exercise channel), she was on a pill for 5 yrs too, and she was not very faithful at taking her pill and was near the 5 year I believe. It came back pretty bad, so please do what your doctors say. 🙏💝All the best to you.

@ajay2say 2 месяца назад

You and I have so much in common. I'm also in WI. I had ILC. I got DIEP flap at UW-Madison--and had amazing surgeons. (I can't speak highly enough about Dr. Michelotti! He was the very best doctor--and one of the kindest humans--I've ever had the pleasure to know.) My surgery was in June 2022; it was 12 hours. (I have had to have a couple of follow up surgeries.) I wish you the best!

@4BarbaraJ 2 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing your story. Such valuable information.

@monicalararodriguez2594 2 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing your story, God bless you 🙌🏼

@jobielifehappens7102 2 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing your story!

@harleyriderstitcher3951 2 месяца назад

I found a lump and had an immediate appointment and everyone saw me immdiately. Within 3 days i had a mamogram, catscan, mri, biopsy then surgery within 2 weeks. Yes, genetic testing done and nothing in my family. Yes, double ( bilateral) mastectomy. The nuclear shots around each nipple prior to the surgery was the worst. No, they could not save the nipple as the lump was right there.

@narelleravesi4993 2 месяца назад

🙏❤️

@HoneyBumblebee300 2 месяца назад

I had treatment for non Hodgkins lymphoma twice. The first time it took 14 months to be diagnosed and it had gone to Stage 4. I went into remission after treatment but cancer returned after 18 months and I had to undergo intense chemotherapy culminating in stem cell transplant. After nearly 10 years of being in remission I was diagnosed with non invasive DCIS in October 2023. I had 3 ops - first was to remove the milk duct, second the nipple and surrounding tissue. But this was not enough as there still was a margin of cancerous tissue. I opted for 3rd oo thinking 3rd time lucky. But it was not meant to be so final option was mastectomy. I had this on 3rd March. I was offered reconstruction using tissue from my tummy but I refused. I can have this any time later if I change my mind but doubt it very much. I will be 68 this year and who needs a boob at my age! I am waiting for the results of genetic testing and if it comes positive then I will have the other breast and ovaries removed. My older sister had breast cancer in 2000, younger sister passed away due to ovarian cancer 7 years ago and we lost my youngest brother to Hodgkins Lymphoma on 12 January this year. Parents did not have cancer, just the siblings. I wish everyone going through cancer treatment good luck. Stay positive and take each day at a time

@helentaylor7132 2 месяца назад

Wow, that's a lot...! So happy though that you're here to tell the story. I had it much easier when I found a lump and only needed a lumpectomy and 16 radiation treatments; no chemo. Tumor was 100% estrogen positive, otherwise negative and negative lymph nodes. Taking anastrozole (estrogen suppressant) for at least five years. Was incidentally found to have a rather large brain aneurysm and a stent was inserted by an endoscopic neurosurgeon. Reduced by half at last check. Have to take aspirin rest of life. I'm going on 67 and have the same attitude about boobs that you do, lol! I may feel differently about that if I ever had a large chest, maybe? I'm a bit mystified as to why you had to have three surgeries. I was recently switched to yearly mammograms already--surgery was May 1, 2022. I wish you the best on your journey. Just keep marching along as well as you can and appreciate small pleasures along the way.

@HoneyBumblebee300 2 месяца назад

@@helentaylor7132 The first surgery was to remove the milk duct which stopped the bleeding. They tested it and then had to remove surrounding tissue. This also did not give a clear margin. I could have had the mastectomy as 3rd op but I decided to have the 3rd op in the hope '3rd time lucky'. But it was not meant to be so 4th op had to be a mastectomy. Nowadays if they can, they try to save the breast. If 3rd op had been a success then I would have needed 5 days of radiotherapy. Luckily cancer was not invasive and stayed within the breast. The 3 op were minor and I had no pain at all. I wish you all the best.

@Ceerads 2 месяца назад

I wish her all the best. I know I’m being a bit nit-picky, but the word is “mastectomy,” not “masectomy,” as she keeps saying.

@helentaylor7132 2 месяца назад

Yeah, a lot of people say it that way and it makes me feel nit-picky, too. I just pretend I hear the "t." But this sweet lady does work in the field....

@cristianasaras6898 2 месяца назад

Well KAREN you are nit-picky poor taste to comment on someone telling their breast cancer story .

@Ceerads 2 месяца назад

@@cristianasaras6898 I SAID I was being nit-picky. I, too, am a breast cancer survivor - and I know how to pronounce “mastectomy,” and I don’t work in the field, as this survivor does. I think she’d be happy to finally learn how to pronounce the word correctly. As for that “Karen” thing: It sucks.

@Ceerads 2 месяца назад

@@helentaylor7132 Exactly.

@californiadoll6273 2 месяца назад

Dad/mom * *had cancer* * Offspring: * *has cancer* * Them: * *Shocked Pikachu Face* *

@lynlawley8903 2 месяца назад

What's pikachu face

@thesheepofthegoodshepherd2868 2 месяца назад

Psalm 86:5 For thou, LORD, art good & ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto ALL them that call upon thee. Soon Our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ shall certainly come and fuulfill His promise to us at Revelation 3:10-11. I will pray for you Sister on the video. Jesus loves you. The government is to blame for the cancer, they contaminate our food air and water, the Lord rebuke them & cause them to repent & be saved by faith in the LIFE SAVING Gospel of Christ Jesus at 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. Brethren as pertaining to the gospel which I preached unto you / which ye have also accepted / and in the which ye continue / by the which also ye are saved: I do you to wit / after what manner I preached unto you / if you keep it / except ye have believed in vain. For first of all I delivered unto you that which I received: how that Christ died for our sins / agreeing to the scriptures and that he was buried / and that he arose again the third day according to the scriptures:

@dona4him942 2 месяца назад

I will lift you up in prayer 🤲🏼🙏🏼❤

@Ceerads 2 месяца назад

Not everyone is Christian. And not everyone believes in God.

@helentaylor7132 2 месяца назад

I am a Christian and blaming "the government" is bullsh*t. It's human population and consumption of goods (the way we live and our needs/desires) that cause pollution. Being Christian doesn't go against the science and science doesn't go against Christianity, which is what too many people seem to believe. It's all part of the same creation people.

@thesheepofthegoodshepherd2868 2 месяца назад

@@Ceerads Jesus died for ALL of the sins of everbody on earth and resurrected to save and freely justify us all that believe on His Holy LIFE SAVING Name. Heaven is our Eternal Home. Thanks be unto God.

@KS-yp1jl 2 месяца назад

No further scans scheduled? I hope you get tested somehow, like blood tests every six months?

@Ceerads 2 месяца назад

Breast cancer blood markers tests are not reliable. My cancer was also triple positive (stage I). The only time my doctors at MSKCC do tests is if there is pain.

@iamwinningrightnow 2 месяца назад

10 years? No switching to an AI? My onco is concerned about cervical cancer being on T that long. Want to switch to an AI in 2-3 yrs.

@UCanHaveHim 2 месяца назад

Too bad docs don't take all conditions seriously. Many "minor" issues can cause major issues. Being reactive is not professional and very few docs are proactive.

@lauratarango8225 2 месяца назад

👍👍🏆🌷🌷🌷👋👋

@len6871 2 месяца назад

Sorry to jear your journey. Been there. But you surprised me. "Genetic not that many?" Mabe Europe has different standards?

@Plutoniummatt 2 месяца назад

only 15% of breast cancers are hereditary, but the chances of getting cancer is very high if you do inherit some of the mutations

@candidacelaya555 2 месяца назад

It’s masTectomy not masSEctomy and dieP flap not Dee flap!!! Although pronunciation is not as important as your health, you’re dealing with with breast cancer patients, so legitimizing your qualifications would be so much easier if you sounded educated. I’m so sorry if I sound harsh, but you’re trying to educate us out here. Praise God you’re healthy!❤

@24JJ821 Месяц назад

What do you mean when you say "with with breast cancer"?

@candidacelaya555 Месяц назад

Typo 🤷🏽‍♀️understood?

@24JJ821 Месяц назад

Yep, typos 🤷‍♀understood?

@len6871 2 месяца назад

Epigenetica. Current society is a not a support with it's triggers. I am so sorry to hear. Thank you for sharing