Anna’s story
Hello.
Breast Cancer is the third common cancer within the UK. It’s estimated that 1 woman is diagnosed every 10 minutes. I became another statistic myself when I was diagnosed with Triple Negative in 2022.I’m raising money for Shine Bright Foundation by climbing Snowdon at night. I am joining lots of other survivors to fund more research into this horrific disease. My Story: Like many others… I found a hard lump in my left Breast in the shower. In February 2022 I was diagnosed with Triple Negative at 3cm stage 3 and by April 2022 I started chemotherapy treatment. Triple Negative is an aggressive form of Breast Cancer which does not require hormone therapy after completion of treatment. However, nobody wins as Triple Positive sufferers, may not require so much chemo/radiotherapy but will have hormone replacement for 5 years. To put this in perspective these are some of the side effects •Drastic weight loss-I’m 5f3 and weigh 53k I lost half of my bodyweight during treatment • Blood Clot, mouth ulcers, tongue thrush • Infections • Severe fatigue -unable to walk at times And tests/treatments that were needed to get me through •Tested for (Braca 1) & (Braca 2) along with another one. Fortunately my cancer was not genetically linked.•6 months (8 cycles of chemotherapy), two different blocks of drugs.• Surgery – Close to having a mastectomy as the tumour was inches away from the nipple. Had three lymph nodes removed, if there was anything lurking in there they would have gone in again and removed the whole breast. As you can imagine this was extremely distressing.• Had a flap -borrowing tissue and flipping it to make a breast. Impressive battle scar though, a constant subconscious reminder.• Radiotherapy (two weeks) Easy in comparison to the above though do have on going skin issues. I am lucky to have come out the other side, and I am looking to do my bit to give back. Every donation will go into securing a better understanding of this horrible disease.
Please sponsor me and let’s save lives together Thank you Anna
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