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HOME: Staten Island, NY, United States
PERSONAL WEBSITE: www.CancerSchmancer.org
ROCK PAPER OR SCISSORS: Rock
HOME: Staten Island, NY, United States
PERSONAL WEBSITE: www.CancerSchmancer.org
ROCK PAPER OR SCISSORS: Rock
STUFF ABOUT ME:
I am a uterine cancer survivor, but was misdiagnosed and mistreated for a peri-menopausal condition I didn't have. My doctors told me I was experiencing symptoms because of a long list of reasons – I was too young, too thin, even eating too much spinach! I was prescribed hormones to treat the symptoms, but my doctors didn’t order the proper diagnostic tests. At the time, I didn’t know to ask why or why not, because I was just happy to be told I was too young for something! But finally after an endometrial biopsy, my greatest fear was confirmed; I had cancer. It took me two years and eight doctors before finally being told I had a gynecologic cancer.
In 2002, I wrote Cancer Schmancer, to tell my story of survival and I soon realized that what happened to me had happened to so many women like me. The book was not the end but rather the beginning of a life mission to improve women's healthcare in America.
I started Cancer Schmancer in 2007 to transform women from patients into medical consumers, and to shift this nation's priority from searching for a cancer cure towards prevention and early detection of cancer.
Visit www.CancerSchmancer.org to learn more about early detection!
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR ME:
Join the 1 Degree of Cancer Team and vote for yourselves!!! DONATE, SHARE YOUR STORY and let's make late stage diagnosis of cancer a thing of the past!!!
I am a uterine cancer survivor, but was misdiagnosed and mistreated for a peri-menopausal condition I didn't have. My doctors told me I was experiencing symptoms because of a long list of reasons – I was too young, too thin, even eating too much spinach! I was prescribed hormones to treat the symptoms, but my doctors didn’t order the proper diagnostic tests. At the time, I didn’t know to ask why or why not, because I was just happy to be told I was too young for something! But finally after an endometrial biopsy, my greatest fear was confirmed; I had cancer. It took me two years and eight doctors before finally being told I had a gynecologic cancer.
In 2002, I wrote Cancer Schmancer, to tell my story of survival and I soon realized that what happened to me had happened to so many women like me. The book was not the end but rather the beginning of a life mission to improve women's healthcare in America.
I started Cancer Schmancer in 2007 to transform women from patients into medical consumers, and to shift this nation's priority from searching for a cancer cure towards prevention and early detection of cancer.
Visit www.CancerSchmancer.org to learn more about early detection!
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR ME:
Join the 1 Degree of Cancer Team and vote for yourselves!!! DONATE, SHARE YOUR STORY and let's make late stage diagnosis of cancer a thing of the past!!!
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Fran, Iam a 29yr lady, who has stage 2 cervical cancer. Never did i believe at my age,I would ever be dealing wit cancer! Its been a long yr and the appt keep comin and the test never end, but wt brings me hope. Is seeing ppl like u! The strength,courage and hope you gve young ladys. keep up the great wrk!! we love you