Thank You, Cancer
There is no cancer in my family, no cancer of any kind, except for mine. I am now 57 and it's been 10 years since my diagnosis.
For the 10 years before this happened I had annual mammograms and each of those years were accompanied by false positive results, bringing me back for a repeat mammogram. In May 2001 when I walked out of the exam room, I had a sense that things were not the same this time around. The ultrasound after the mammogram showed calcifications in my mammary ducts that were not present the year before. To confirm this, I had a breast biopsy. My official diagnosis was DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), a pre-cancer in the mammary ducts that if left untreated can develop into a tumor. Actually, most tumors begin this way. Doctors reminded me that I had my mammogram just in time.
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By the way, Gina Misiroglu of Red Room put me in touch with the AOL/Huffington Post people, which is one of the great ways she's bringing traffic to Red Room and getting attention for Red Room's authors.
About Diana
Since childhood, Diana has been fascinated with the written word. As an only child of working parents, she spent lots of time alone, which she filled with reading a great deal of books and filling the pages of many journals. That's how she liked to keep busy...
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Causes Diana Raab Supports
Journaling, Writing for Healing, American Foundation For Suicide Prevention,
Diana’s Favorite Books
Anais Nin's Journals,
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert,
My Invented Country by Isabel Allende,
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger,
This Boy's Life by Tobias...
Belated Congratulations
On your anniversary of beating Cancer. I loved your post as I am the daughter of a Breast Cancer Survivor. Mom is 71 years old and has been cancer-free for going on 16 years. She swears she beat it through the power of positive thinking combined with the right medical care.
Very Inspiring - thank you.