breast cancer for the past eight years.Since her diagnosis in April 2013, the Montreal resident has undergone 16 treatments of chemotherapy, bilateral mastectomy, a full hysterectomy and two reconstructive surgeries.
Although now in remission, she still has two more years of hormonal drug therapy to go.It has been ordeal that could’ve been prevented if she was diagnosed earlier, Slight says.
Why COVID-19 vaccines are raising false red flags of breast cancer “If I had been given the proper screening, additional to the mammogram, the cancer would have been found at least a year and a half earlier.
So that’s a long time for cancer to progress,” the 51-year-old who works in special education told Global News.Slight got her first mammogram at.