I HAVE BREAST CANCER

摘要

Early in August of '96, I Noticed a small lump under my left nipple. I wasn't too concerned—I assumed it was a cyst that would go away on its own. About three weeks later, I was driving home from work and felt some wetness on my chest. When I looked inside my shirt I saw blood dripping from my nipple. My first reaction was more of surprise than worry. My second was the gut feeling that this was not good news. I rushed to my family practitioner, who said that my symptoms clearly merited investigation. I saw a surgeon later that day and had a needle aspiration that led to an excisional biopsy. The pathology report stated my lump was malignant—an "infiltrating ducted carcinoma"—the most common form of breast cancer.