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What's it really like to hear the words "you have breast cancer?" What's it like to make treatment decisions? To tell family members and friends? To go through chemotherapy and radiation? To have a mastectomy?

Here you can find stories by women, and a few men, who share all this and more.

Kathleen Katie's Story
I still remember the day, almost a year ago now, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 31. It was the Monday of midterm's week in my second year of business school. I was over $100,000 into debt to pay for school and then this...cancer? MORE >


mara Mara's Story
Breast Cancer... the two words always have been a part of my vocabulary. They have been a part of my life, and they have been a part of my world. My mother and grandmother both died from breast cancer, both too early in life. In the back of my mind, I always knew breast cancer was something that might show its ugly head within my beloved body, the only problem was I didn't know when.
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