Breast
When Ph.D. student LaShae Rolle felt a pain in her chest, she didn’t think much of it at first.A little soreness made sense: she was working hard in the gym, preparing to bench press nearly 300 pounds for a powerlifting competition.The pain came and went, but then Rolle noticed a…
When I read about James Van Der Beek’s death at age 48, I felt for his family. I wasn’t at all surprised when a GoFundMe was established to cover medical bills and help support his wife and six kids after his passing.I was diagnosed with Stage 3b triple-negative breast cancer…
Dr. Sue Hwang knows better than anyone that cancer doesn’t care who you are or what you do for a living.When Hwang was 46, she was diagnosed with breast cancer with no symptoms. As an oncologist, she had been treating patients with the same cancer for more than a decade,…
Dr. Sue Hwang knew something was wrong as soon as she saw her scan results.As an oncologist for more than a decade, she had helped thousands of patients navigate their mammogram results to screen for breast cancer.Her own diagnosis was still a shock — although all her previous scans had…
