My name is Elizabeth Dill-Isgro. I am 35 years old and a three year breast cancer survivor.

On January 18, 2002, while taking a leisurely bath, I found a lump the size of a golf ball under my right breast.

No one in my family has had cancer, let alone breast cancer, so I thought maybe it was just a cyst. To be safe, I called my doctor and got an appointment that day. And then began the roller coaster ride.

First came the mammogram, then a breast biopsy and as each test went by, the tumor was growing in my breast. It had now gone from the size of a golf ball to the size of a baseball. On February 18, 2002, I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Each time I went to my surgeon I brought a friend, but on that day I went alone.

My doctor walked in the room and said *Oh you came alone today* and that was all she had to say. As she spoke I felt like I was having an out of body experience. I could hear this person talking to me saying things like cancer, surgery, mastectomy and chemotherapy, I felt like I would faint. I left the office, called my sisters and asked them to drive to my Mothers to tell her as I feared what the news might do to her and I did not want her to be alone. They scheduled me for a mastectomy the following week

(From Elizabeth Dill-Isgro)


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