After having what Holly Daugherty thought was a preventative mastectomy, she learned she had breast cancer.
mastectomy and hysterectomy to reduce her chances of developing cancer. When she had her mastectomy, her doctor didn’t notice anything suspicious. That’s why she was surprised when pathology found breast cancer.
“Because I didn’t have to lose my hair and have the outward display of fighting cancer, it was almost a little bit embarrassing to say, ‘Hey, I have cancer,’” she said. “I’m careful when I’m talking to other cancer patients because I know I did not pay quite the price that they did. It is not lost on me what has been given to me.”In 2020, Daugherty’s sister learned she had breast cancer and doctors advised the family to undergo screening to see if they carry a BRCA mutation.
“From the time I got the MRI in November to January I grew cancer. That’s how quickly it grew. They said it was invasive and starting to spread,” Daugherty said. “We caught it so early, thank God that it had not spread into my lymph nodes yet. So needless to say only because of cancer research am I even alive right now.”
Because her treatment was so limited, Daugherty never lost her hair. People pause when they see someone with long hair saying they have cancer. “I’m still healthy. I don’t have a brittle body,” she said. “It was strange that I got to wear the badge of cancer remission when I didn’t have to walk the road of so many others who had a harder fight than me.”Understanding her risk of breast cancer helped Daugherty have an easier cancer experience. That’s why she hopes her story encourages others to undergo regular tests, such as mammograms, which can detect breast cancer earlier.
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