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Part of Runway's mission is to honor the legacies and stories of those who have been impacted by breast cancer. Our blog page is dedicated to helping us share those stories.
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One month before her scheduled mammogram, Heather Sandquist felt a lump. She figured she would hold off addressing it until her scheduled appointment, but a few weeks later, when the lump was bigger, she decided to see her PCP.
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“It’s a tough thing to hear. I was alone with my dog at the time and I sent my husband a text to pull over so I could tell him. There was just silence. That was hard to take.”
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JoAnne Loretti was familiar with breast cancer after her mother’s battle in 1993. Even so, when her annual mammogram resulted in a call back, she “didn’t think much of it.” The follow up imaging revealed three masses and immediately JoAnne thought, “please don’t let it be in my lymph nodes.” Her prayers were answered when a mastectomy removed all of the cancer and no chemo or radiation was necessary.
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Rebecca Read spent all of 2020 as an emergency room nurse during the height of the pandemic. It was an extremely stressful period of life, which is why she felt like, entering 2021, things were starting to return to normalcy. That feeling wouldn’t last long when, after receiving the COVID vaccine, she had an adverse reaction. The reaction prompted doctors to take a CAT scan of her chest, which revealed a lump. Further testing would result in a breast cancer diagnosis on November 30, 2021.
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“there is so much in the breast cancer world about early detection and so little about support after you have been diagnosed.”
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