Breast Cancer Stories

I'm not sure why you stopped talking to me... Maybe it started after the diagnosis. You saw it coming. Even when we were teenagers, you knew you'd have breast cancer... It was no surprise.

Looking back over the past 10 years, I can safely say, that what does not kill you makes you stronger. Having breast cancer was a life-changing event. And for this, I would like to thank my cancer.

It's hard not to fall in love with a man who draws on your body in black Sharpie pen as if you are a priceless canvas, and crafts you a new breast from the cancerous wreckage of your original one.

Those families that have to stand by and watch a loved one be consumed by this horrible disease, or the side-effects of the treatments, are survivors. It's not just the person who gets breast cancer that's affected.

I still remember, like a too-vivid bad dream, exactly how I felt when I first heard the words breast cancer in relation to me and my breast.