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A Breast Cancer Survivor Helps Strengthen Her Community
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#breastcancerjourney #breastcancersurvivor • After losing her twin sister to breast cancer, Sheila Boling got screened on a yearly basis. Her early detection of breast cancer resulted in a double mastectomy and reconstruction. Sheila's involvement in Sisters Conquering Cancer, a support group for African-American women, continues to be a source of comfort and inspiration throughout her journey. • Learn more about breast cancer screening at: https://uvahealth.com/services/breast... • Transcript • Sheila Boling: • I'm Sheila Boling, and I am a breast cancer survivor. My sister Lisa was diagnosed in late eighties to early nineties with breast cancer. A lot of people didn't know that she was my twin. It was hard to see her being sick. She was my only sibling and she was my protector. She lived to see her 35th birthday, and then she passed away like two days after that because she had breast cancer. • That's when I started getting my mammograms. When I was scheduled for my yearly mammogram in 2017, right before I went, I had the pain that I really could describe. I just put it off to be drinking too much caffeine. And then when I had my mammogram, they called me and said, we saw this spot that we would like to take a biopsy of. • Dr. David Brenin: • Her tumor was picked up with routine screening mammography as one of the common things that we see in calcifications. And then she went on to have a biopsy and was diagnosed with a very early stage breast cancer. • Sheila Boling: • So after meeting with Dr. Brenin and talking everything over, then there was like plan to have the surgery and remove the breast because I had two calcifications and they weren't close together. If they were closer together, then the option would have been the lumpectomy instead of the mastectomy, the surgery went well. The recovery went well, too. • Dr. David Brenin • We talked about early detection and screening, breast cancer screening with mammography. The goal of that is early detection. And in this case, it worked. It diagnosed two stage zero breast cancer, which is a cancer that is eminently curable. And we were able to cure it. So it's a success story of screening and early detection. • Sheila Boling • I was first introduced to Sisters Conquering Cancer when my sister passed away. As a resource to tell my story, to share my journey of grieving the mission of sisters conquering cancer is to help African-American women with either being a supporter or a survivor of breast cancer or other cancers. • Dr. David Brenin: • Programs like this have been shown to be effective at influencing people who in the past have. We've been had a difficult time reaching and making sure that people understand about breast cancer screening and early detection and the vital importance of it. • Sheila Boling: • I think it's important to be screened, to have your mammograms, to be yourself. And I think having a positive outlook on life and your health plays into your recovery. And I think that helped me get through my cancer journey.
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