How Your Life Has Changed with Breast Cancer

Susan Mottram: How Your Life Has Changed with Breast Cancer
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Susan Mottram Breast Cancer

In May 2016 I had a routine Mammogram at the mobile unit nearest to my home. In a little over a week, I was invited to Worthing Hospital for a follow up appointment. At this point I had another mammogram, followed by an Ultrasound and then I had a Biopsy. Two weeks later I was told that I had Breast Cancer. I saw the...

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Give us a bit of backstory. When were you diagnosed? How is life different now?

2016. I no longer work! I was unable to cope with the physical and mental side of the job.

What lessons have you learned since being diagnosed?

If anything feels unusual, get it checked out!

What advice would you give someone whose loved one was recently diagnosed?

Be there, but don't pressure them? Read up so you understand some of the issues? Get support yourself?