Cathy Smith

I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in September of 1991. I had found a lump on my left breast about 2 weeks before I was to go for my annual female check-up. The lump was about the size of a pea. I didn't pay much attention to it, till my doctor did my check-up. The lump had grown to marble size. I told my doctor that and he rushed me in to have a mammogram. I took another week to get an appointment for the mammogram. By that time my lump was the size of a key lime.

The doctor sent me to a surgeon. The surgeon took another week to get an appointment, by then the growth was the size of a small orange. The surgeon put me into the hospital a few days later for surgery. The surgeon told my husband and I that the tumor was cancerous but that they had caught it before it went into my lymph glands. He also told us that they had sent a specimen to the lab to see how agressive it was.

When he got the results back, he called me. He wanted for me to come in right away. I asked him why he said that he would tell me when I got there. The surgeon and another doctor told me I had a rare type of cancer and that it's life expectancy was about 6 months to a year. I cried alot. The other doctor ask me if I was willing to go through experimental Chemo. I told him I would. That was almost 10 years ago. I'm still cancer free.

Cathy Smith

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