Scars of Strength

As I stand in front of my husband taking this photo, I am both empowered and terrified but I am laid bare for a cause. There are so many emotions, memories and impacts racing through my heart & mind that started with my IBC diagnosis in September 2017 that will be...

So, here I am, 5 years post-Inflammatory-Breast-Cancer diagnosis and living with the aftermath of treatment. While I’m very happy that I’m in a state known as NED (No Evidence of Disease), the cost of the rigorous treatment needed to survive IBC has left me with...

I was diagnosed at age 29 in 2015, just one month after being proposed to. I had no time to preserve fertility. I went immediately into treatments. I went through 16 rounds of chemo, 44 rounds of radiation and a mastectomy. I had a single mastectomy and hoped to one...

My story started with a lump in my armpit that was painful in October 2019. I just assumed it was bacteria from shaving my armpits or something along those lines and ignored it moving on with life. Fast forward to December of 2019, I still have the lump in my armpit...

In March of 2019, I had recently weaned my daughter and it felt like my milk had come in again. I wasted time expressing milk and trying to massage out the “blocked duct”. In May, I went to the doctor because it wasn’t getting better. Within 3 days of going to the...

Diagnosed just before my 51st birthday, February 2015. ER/PR- HER2+ IBC FECT, radical MX and ANC, radiotherapy and cured! Huge thanks to the researchers and scientists behind my treatment. Thankfully, my consultant was on the ball, but IBC support, particularly...

My name is Kerri and I was diagnosed with IBC in May of 2019. I was 48 years old with no family history. I had a clear mammogram in June of 2018 and felt a lump in March of 2019. A diagnostic mammogram was ordered with ultrasound. A biopsy and lymph node aspiration...

I was diagnosed the day before my 39th birthday, in 2003. 17 years on, my face now has many more wrinkles than my scar! Luckily I had a medical team who knew how to treat IBC. Even in 2020, many are not so fortunate so the IBC Network is crucial in the research and...

At 36 years old I was diagnosed with stage 3 inflammatory breast cancer. At the time my children were 5 and 3. The IBC Network was critical to my survival. I learned that treatment, surgery and radiation was very different for...

I was diagnosed with metastatic IBC at the age of 29, while pregnant with my son. I knew about breast cancer but had no idea about different types of breast cancer. I ignored my swollen breast thinking it was just getting ready to make milk. I didn't bother getting it...

Diagnosed at 28 with inflammatory breast cancer Liz took this photo one year after being diagnosed, following chemo, bilateral mastectomy and radiation. Now a 10 year survivor she continues to wear her scars proudly.