Florence Cardinal’s Breast Cancer Story
Woman’s health blogger Florence Cardinal told her breast cancer story at Well Woman Blog.
Florence tells us how she at the young age of 12 dealt with her mother’s breast cancer and how the process affected her outlook about cancer in general.
Mom recovered, but it was a long road. Even after she came home she had to make frequent trips to the Cross Cancer Clinic in Edmonton, a two and a half-hour drive, for therapy. She had radiation treatment. She may have also had chemotherapy because she lost her hair by the handful. But the trips became less frequent, and finally things went back to normal.
Ten years later the worries began again. Newly married, this time I was old enough to know what was going on. The doctor had found a lump in her other breast. A biopsy revealed cancer. She would have to have the second breast removed. This time, instead of our small town hospital, she had the operation in the University Hospital in Edmonton. Methods and conditions had improved a great deal since the first operation.
Read the rest of Florence’s story here.
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Ivan About Town
Feb 19, 2007 at 2:36 am
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