Real-life stories from women just like you.
Diagnosed back in 1981, aged just 33, devoted sportswoman Joy Foordstruggled with various different breast forms before she discovered Contact. The outcome, she says, was nothing short of a miracle.
For Ingrid Colclough, an Amoena Life article on The Power of Positive Thinking struck a definite chord, because the advice it contained reminded her of how she coped with her own breast cancer diagnosis. Here, she shares her tips for feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
Find out how Lou Rall got on when she joined a celebrity fundraising trek to Peru this September. Lou Rall, 37, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 while eight months’ pregnant. Her ensuing breast cancer ordeal meant that she couldn’t devote herself to the thrill of welcoming little Ben into her life because she had to have surgery just a few weeks after he was born. “My friends and family were expecting me to call them with news about the baby, but instead I had to tell them I had breast cancer,” she said. Lou’s doctors had hoped that a lumpectomy would be sufficient in terms of treatment, but found that the cancer had spread, which meant further surgery for a full mastectomy and lymph node clearance.