MD Anderson helps breast cancer survivor get back to her family
Stacia Folloder was nine years away from the recommended age to get her first mammogram when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 31. She didn’t have a family history of breast cancer.
“I was shocked,” she recalls. “I didn’t know you could get breast cancer before the age of 50.”
Stacia’s breast cancer symptomsIn September 2017, Stacia’s two children were ages 3 and 3 months. She had finished breastfeeding her youngest...

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Breast cancer survivor grateful for MD Anderson’s care
In August 2021, Dawn Patrick found a lump underneath her arm while in the shower. She immediately made an appointment with her primary care doctor, who didn’t think the lump was going to be a big deal.
But after imaging scans and tests, Dawn learned she had three tumors in her breast. Biopsies revealed two of them were cancerous. She secured an appointment at MD Anderson a short time later.
“I was amazed and shocked at how...

HER2-positive breast cancer survivor: I believe in MD Anderson
Jennifer Smith didn’t come to MD Anderson first for her breast cancer treatment, but she wishes she had. After she’d undergone treatment at...