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Milestone Birthday and a Mammogram

I’m 40?!!! A milestone birthday celebrated with a big bash. Plus, my first mammogram!  What should I expect? One co-worker told me after her first screening she never went back. She found the...

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Thankful for Amy

As anyone hearing the news for the first time that you have cancer, it is just such a shock and very hard to grasp all that is going on.  But then Amy comes into my life and what a godsend.  I know it...

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Alegent Health Support Groups Have SO Much to Offer

My name is Becky and I am a two time breast cancer survivor.  My first diagnosis was in 1993 when I was 42.  My treatment consisted of a lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation.  The chemo made me VERY...

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Annual Mammography is a Must!

I was diagnosed with stage 2 invasive ductal cancer of the breast in 2004. I was 46 years old.  As an x-ray technologist working for Alegent Health, I knew I should probably have a mammogram every...

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Wonderful People to Help During a Rough Road

I found a lump in my breast on Thanksgiving 2009.  I had just had a baby and we thought maybe it was a clogged milk duct. I went to see my OBGYN, Ann Sullivan for my 6-week post partum check up and she...

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The Big Squeeze

Anytime I register a patient who questions whether she needs to have a mammogram every year, I share my mom’s story.  After having a mammogram at age 70, her family doctor told her the “funny area” was...

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Genetic Testing — Holding the Key to Survival

I can’t remember much about being nine years old, but I will never forget Thanksgiving of 2000. My mom, Kamie Kay Preston, was diagnosed with breast cancer. From that moment forward, my life would...

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My Nurse Navigator

Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My surgeon, Dr. Imbrock, contacted the cancer nurse navigators, and that’s how I met Amy Graber.  Amy has been such a blessing and really lived...

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My Journey from Breast Cancer

I do not have a family history of any type of cancer.  The furthest thing from my mind was that one day I would join the “pink ribbon club” but all of that changed on Thursday, January 29, 2009 when I...

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Can’t Win For Losing

This morning while eating breakfast I came across a story in the newspaper announcing that an occasional glass of wine can increase a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer by 15%. I immediately...

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Annual Mammography is a Must!

I was diagnosed with stage 2 invasive ductal cancer of the breast in 2004. I was 46 years old.  As an x-ray technologist working for Alegent Health, I knew I should probably have a mammogram every...

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Wonderful People to Help During a Rough Road

I found a lump in my breast on Thanksgiving 2009.  I had just had a baby and we thought maybe it was a clogged milk duct. I went to see my OBGYN, Ann Sullivan for my 6-week post partum check up and she...

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The Big Squeeze

Anytime I register a patient who questions whether she needs to have a mammogram every year, I share my mom’s story.  After having a mammogram at age 70, her family doctor told her the “funny area” was...

View Article


Genetic Testing — Holding the Key to Survival

I can’t remember much about being nine years old, but I will never forget Thanksgiving of 2000. My mom, Kamie Kay Preston, was diagnosed with breast cancer. From that moment forward, my life would...

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My Nurse Navigator

Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My surgeon, Dr. Imbrock, contacted the cancer nurse navigators, and that’s how I met Amy Graber.  Amy has been such a blessing and really lived...

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My Journey from Breast Cancer

I do not have a family history of any type of cancer.  The furthest thing from my mind was that one day I would join the “pink ribbon club” but all of that changed on Thursday, January 29, 2009 when I...

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Beating Breast Cancer

“I think about it every day” Susan McArdle feels like she dodged a bullet. The 40-year-old mother of two young sons hadn’t had an annual physical for five years so when her primary care physician...

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3-D Mammogram Catches Breast Cancer Early

When Carmen Campisi called to schedule her mammogram, she hadn’t heard of the new 3-D technology, or tomosynthesis, at Alegent Creighton Health Lakeside Hospital. A spur-of-the-moment decision to try...

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Three-time Breast Cancer Survivor

photo courtesy of Bell Photography Vira Brooks had three sons in high school. And she had newly-diagnosed breast cancer. “I remember hearing the words, ‘You have cancer,’” she said. “Those words set...

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Annual Mammography is a Must!

I was diagnosed with stage 2 invasive ductal cancer of the breast in 2004. I was 46 years old.  As an x-ray technologist working for Alegent Health, I knew I should probably have a mammogram every...

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