*Anne's Healthful Journey™ through Stage IV Breast Cancer
*Anne's Healthful Journey™ with Breast Cancer
Join us for an interview with Anne and learn from her journey after diagnosis with Stage IV Breast Cancer. This is Anne’s Healthful Story™. Please note that the video may only play in landscape mode on a mobile phone.
Diagnosis
Treatment
Life Changes
Navigate Anne’s Journey with Stage IIb Breast Cancer
00:24 My name is Anne Camden and I live in Raleigh, North Carolina
02:30 December of 2008: Pain in her breast, lump the size of a lima bean
08:58 Describing one of the early warning signs: fatigue
14:53 Lumpectomy was scary, but ended up being a nonevent – after months, it felt exhilarating that they were finally taking it out – like weeding a garden. I was excited to have it gone
Diagnosis
18:58 Follow up post chemotherapy, lumpectomy, and radiation, placed on Tamoxifen for 3 years
21:30 Exercising during the first year of treatment – walking, swimming because it was not weight bearing
26:10 Other families talk about sports, we talk about cancer diagnoses. I hate that for them… but at the same time they are some of the most empathetic, understanding people at that age.
Treatments with chemotherapy
30:20 New primary tumor in 2016 – dropping weight while training for a 4th marathon
31:00 I had a cough, gasping, and I found another lump in the middle of my chest about the size of a kalamata olive – had had good screenings just in February, just 3 months earlier
31:50 Scheduled an ultrasound
40:00 Thankfully my body appears to respond better to harder drugs / chemotherapy
Leaving her Career and Advice
42:50 Leaving her former executive career
43:00 Leptomeningeal diagnosis – cancer in her brain and spinal column
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