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...
View ArticleThankful 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...
View ArticleAlegent 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...
View ArticleAnnual 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...
View ArticleWonderful 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...
View ArticleThe 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 ArticleGenetic 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleCan’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...
View ArticleAnnual 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...
View ArticleWonderful 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...
View ArticleThe 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 ArticleGenetic 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleBeating 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...
View Article3-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...
View ArticleThree-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...
View ArticleAnnual 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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