Collective Diary
Cancer and Careers is collecting snapshots of the cancer experience by asking working people with cancer at all phases of their treatment and recovery to answer the same series of questions about their outlook, their work experience and advice they would give others. We invite you to read their stories and share your own.
Recent Entries
- I was Diagnosed with:
- Invasive Breast Cancer- Her 2 positive
- Employment Status:
- Full time with graduate school in clinical Psychology
- Age:
- 37
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- Currently awaiting surgery (double mastectomy) with chemotherapy to follow for 4-6 months.
- I was Diagnosed with:
- Breast Cancer
- Employment Status:
- Analyst
- Age:
- 38
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- Too early to tell. I'm having mastectomy this week, SLN from last week shows negative results! ...
- I was Diagnosed with:
- Stage 3 Inoperable Lung Cancer
- Employment Status:
- Self - Employed
- Age:
- 61
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- Aggressive chemo treatment: Cisplatin + Etoposide daily for 6 consecutive days, two weeks off, 6 ...
- I was Diagnosed with:
- breast cancer
- Employment Status:
- full time
- Gender/Age:
- /55
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- Not yet begun, having difficulty getting the HMO to approve before the 1st of May because I chang...
- I was Diagnosed with:
- Ovarian IV
- Employment Status:
- employed
- Age:
- 57
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- 2nd round chemo - gemzar
- I was Diagnosed with:
- Aggressive non-hormonal breast cancer both times
- Employment Status:
- Full time
- Age:
- 35
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- I had a lumpectomy on my right breast. I had 3 types of chemo the first time around in 2002. One ...
- I was Diagnosed with:
- Stage IV Colon cancer with metastis to the liver
- Employment Status:
- I have recently retired.
- Age:
- 59
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- As you will see, my cancer history and treatment have been quite complicated. My original diagno...
- I was Diagnosed with:
- Breast Cancer
- Employment Status:
- Currently self-employed
- :
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- 6 treatments 3 chemicals;Bilateral mastectomy;6 more chemo with 3 chemicals;radiation;Femara;Fasl...
- I was Diagnosed with:
- Breast cancer 2000, Epithelioid Sarcoma 2005
- Employment Status:
- currently employed full time, though was let go from my last company during treatment process.
- Age:
- 31
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- for most recent cancer: 3 surgeries, 6 weeks radiation and enough drugs to put me on the DEA’s m...
- I was Diagnosed with:
- Breast cancer stage II
- Employment Status:
- unemployed
- Age:
- 60
- Type and Description of Treatments:
- 2 surgeries, chemo, radiation, hormone therapy
