Ginny Mason was featured in the September 2004 Grass Roots Profile at The Breast Cancer Site. – “Ginny Mason is a 10 year survivor of Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC). When she was diagnosed in March of 1994 the information available about her disease was worse than alarming, it was downright dismal. Women facing this diagnosis were told they had a 3% chance of living five years. Very few women survived 12 to 18 months.”
Linda Neese wrote her story as a Guest Column in the Quad-City Times in June 2001. – “Having a sister who is an 8-year survivor of breast cancer, we were fairly informed of our own breast health and common treatment but still had no information on inflammatory breast cancer, or IBC.”
Joyce Lee’s story, The Power of the Palette, in her local newspaper
Karen Kirschenbaum’s IBC survival story was broadcast on NBC Channel 5, Chicago on September 23, 1999. – “But the difference is the order of treatment — chemotherapy, then surgery — instead of the other way around with standard breast cancer. In this case, the treatment protocol is critical.”
Lee Humble Smith’s Canadian IBC Story comes in three parts. (Part I, Part II, Part III.) – “Devastated, and envisioning the cancer cells sending out for travel brochures to figure out how to get to the Riviera on my liver, I searched the internet for the drug company Hoffman La Roche Canada…”
Lynn Hamm wrote a letter to Ann Landers, published May 11, 1999. This letter was written after Lynn read the letter published February 24, 1999. – “I just read the letter in your column from the man who said the skin on his wife’s breast resembled an orange peel. She delayed seeking medical help until it was too late. Please help educate your readers about a little-known killer called inflammatory breast cancer.”
Elaine Hill wrote a letter to the Franklin Sun editor: Breast cancer awareness can save your life. – “I am writing this so if there are other ladies that read this think that, that red swollen breast is mastitis, I am telling you that it might not be.”
Ginny Mason was proudly one of 38 models, all breast cancer survivors at the Fashionably Aware VI- breast cancer awareness raising event/ fashion show.
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