I’m not just the President of My Girls Skin Care. I am also part of the My Girls Community having undergone treatment for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ, or DCIS, in my left breast 12 years ago and now again this year … Lobular Cancer in my right breast.
While my DCIS was non-invasive breast cancer, meaning the cancer was contained to the milk duct and considered non-life threatening, the pathology indicated an increased risk of developing Lobular Cancer In Situ or LCIS in the left breast. Lobular carcinoma in situ is an area (or areas) of abnormal cell growth that increases a person’s risk of developing invasive breast cancer later on and occurs in the milk-producing glands at the end of breast ducts.
I worried about this diagnosis and the serious tone in which the MGH Fellow took while reviewing it with me. When I dragged my feet after radiation therapy treatments wrapped up, the smart, young fellow hounded me with phone calls urging me to start my 5 year course of Tamoxifen, an estrogen blocker used since 1998 to treat millions of women and men diagnosed with hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer.
I was only 41 and Stage 0, yet the threat of LCIS and the aggressive nature of the tumor was cause for concern, he said. He was right. 12 years later in May of 2019, I found a lump which was biopsied to reveal Stage III Lobular Cancer, undetected in annual mammograms and MRIs which I had diligently continued from 2008 through 2015 … 6 years following my initial diagnosis.
I am in treatment once again and coming to terms with it having finished up a partial mastectomy at Massachusetts General Hospital in early June and now moving on to Chemotherapy and Radiation at Oregon Health and Sciences University after a move to the Pacific Northwest a few months before my diagnosis.
I am grateful to my team at OHSU. Their expertise and concern for my well-being are so comforting as well as their recently completed state-of-the-art OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. They have made me feel at home in a new and unfamiliar setting as I go through treatments without family or close friends nearby.
As we need to support each other during difficult times, I invite you to My Girls Skin Care by clicking on the link here @ My Girls Community. Share to help others through a difficult time. Caretakers, family, and friends are also welcome! We post news of treatment centers providing free patient samples for friends and family in need, news of advancements in quality of care, and product discounts.
My goal has been to provide a better standard of comfort during radiation therapy for breast cancer. Today, My Girls is recommended in over 1,000 U.S. hospitals for breast, head and neck, lung and other cancers that compromise the skin and for help with diminishing and healing surgical wounds. This gives me great joy and strength. I hope that you will join me in expanding ways in which we may offer comfort to others undergoing cancer treatments.
Life is all about community and the joy in giving … isn’t it!?
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Cheryl says
You are an inspiration! 💕
Arlene Hewson says
I used My Girls thru 34 rounds of radiation and never got more then pink skin. It’s such a good product. I still order the deodorant and the soap. I thank you for your product and think the fact you have also been where your customers are makes a big difference.