In late January 2022 I went for my routine mammogram at Menorah Medical Center. A week later I was called back for an ultrasound. Then I was called back for a biopsy another week later. On Feb 11, 2022 I got the dreaded call from my doctor that I had invasive ductal carcinoma. Two and a half weeks later I was having a chemo port surgically put in and a week later started 6 rounds of chemotherapy. What a whirlwind. My oncologist requested an MRI of the breasts after my initial diagnosis and discovered the tumor was much larger than the mammogram had shown. The MRI also showed I had DCIS breast cancer tissue next to the tumor. I was able to get both removed with a lumpectomy after my chemotherapy and then had 3 weeks of radiation. It’s now 2 years from diagnosis and I’m cancer free!
