Tammy Caban's TaTa's

This is not MY story, it is the story of my breast cancer. My breast cancer is but a part of my wonderful and exciting life. I was a survivor even before I was diagnosed. I won't EVEN consider the alternative.... :) Now I realize I am also a Warrior.

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Diagnosis Date - 31 December 2007; Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) & Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) Lumpectomy - 14 December 2007 Re-excisions - 31 January & 6 March 2008 Stage 2, Grade 2 Lymph Node-, HR+, HER2-, BRCA- Treatment; 4 cycles of chemotherapy; Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide) & Taxotere (docetaxel), every 21 days. Chemo completed July 2008. 6 and 1/2 weeks of daily Radiation completed at the end of September 2008. Left radical mastectomy with tram flap reconstruction August 2009.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Motivating Cancer Quotes


"People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram." ~ Nancy Reagan

"An individual doesn’t get cancer, a family does." ~ Terry Tempest Williams

"Cancer is not for sissies." ~ Suzanne Somers

"Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old." ~ Olivia Newton-John

"As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been. "~ Shelley Hamlin

"Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves." ~ Carol Pearson

"We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. " ~Gilbert Adair, "Under the Sign of Cancer," Myths and Memories, 1986


The following quotes are from Lance Armstrong ~

"To be afraid is a priceless education."

"Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight."

"Chemotherapy is war."

"If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way."

"So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it’s meant to improve us."
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