Today women face a plethora of options. Their tumors are tested for all kinds of differences that may tell them if chemotherapy will work and which drugs would work best. There are support groups and help for families that we didn’t have.
BY Kathy LaTour
PUBLISHED January 22, 2018
Kathy LaTour is a breast cancer survivor, author of The Breast Cancer Companion and co-founder of CURE magazine. While cancer did not take her life, she has given it willingly to educate, empower and enlighten the newly diagnosed and those who care for them.
Wow, it is 2018. Usually it’s October when I am struck by how many years it has been since my diagnosis of breast cancer and how much things have changed. 1986 seems like a decade ago instead of 32 years ago.
I was 36 and married and had four step children who I was helping raise.
I also had a 1-year-old daughter who was the love of my life. It took me two years to get pregnant, which I attributed to waiting until I was 34 to begin trying. She was born six weeks early after an emergency C-section when my blood pressure spiked, but she had a 9 on the Apgar scale, which measures the health of newborns.
I was 36 and married and had four step children who I was helping raise.
I also had a 1-year-old daughter who was the love of my life. It took me two years to get pregnant, which I attributed to waiting until I was 34 to begin trying. She was born six weeks early after an emergency C-section when my blood pressure spiked, but she had a 9 on the Apgar scale, which measures the health of newborns.
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