Jun 22, 2024
A print and runway model, Christine Handy withstood a lumpectomy, two mastectomies and a MRSA infection, plus a chemotherapy regimen featuring Herceptin and taxol to survive HER2+ breast cancer. That inspired her to write a book, “Walk Beside Me,” and to produce a film,...
Jun 15, 2024
What Deb Krier thought was a routine mammogram turned into a Stage Zero diagnosis of breast cancer. Stage Zero became Stage III, which was upgraded to Stage IV HER 2+ invasive breast cancer. Deb opted for a double mastectomy with no reconstruction. She was subsequently diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, then...
Jun 10, 2024
Vicki Wolf was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37. Ductal Carcinoma in SITU was successfully addressed with a lumpectomy. However, Vicki was diagnosed with the same type of cancer just two years later. Again, a lumpectomy. When Vicki was 47, she was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. She survived that...
Jun 8, 2024
An ultrasound revealed a large mass in Melinda Bachini’s liver, and that led to a diagnosis of cholangiocarcinoma, a form of bile duct cancer. Doctors removed two thirds of her liver. Unfortunately, her cancer returned three months. Melinda was hoping to take part in a clinical trial, but when insurance wouldn’t...
Jun 1, 2024
When Kay Kays was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 1994, she not only had few treatment options, but she had no way of knowing this would be the first of four such diagnoses; but she survived each one, the last in 2008, and is still going strong. She is now able to do just about everything she could do prior to her...