This is a first-hand account from our Stacey Sager, who shares her story of perseverance, sacrifice, and survival as she overcame three separate cancers during three separate decades of her adult life.
This is a first-hand account from our Stacey Sager, who describes a story of perseverance, sacrifice, and survival as she overcame 3 separate cancers during 3 separate decades of her adult life.This is by far the most difficult and personal story of my career -- a story that began a quarter of a century ago and appeared to be a complete success. It was 1998, and a mammogram saved my life.
Fast forward to 13 years later. It was 2011, and I was approaching 44 -- the age my mother had died. I had just had both my daughters and decided upon the urging of my doctors and my sister , that it was time to figure out if I had the mutation. Not surprisingly, I tested positive for BCRA1. As reporters, we sometimes cover the most painful stories and try to find the takeaway for our viewers. I repeatedly asked my doctors, "What is the lesson here?" Perhaps, this was so I wouldn't think that this was a story of how terrible things only happen to me. I mean surely I am not the only BRCA woman, or high-risk person, who feels "hunted" by this beast.is my story of advocacy, survival, and hopefully, a story of how I have saved my own life a third time.
Stacey Sager sits down with her breast surgeon, Dr. Elisa Port of Mount Sinai, to talk about the complexities of triple-negative breast cancer.Mount Sinai Breast Surgeon, Dr. Christina Weltz went back decades within the institution of Mount Sinai, to research the number of secondary cases of breast cancer in women who had mastectomies.
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