Mr. Maven came running into the other room, saying “Hey, come watch this thing about breast cancer. You might be interested.”
Yes, you could say so.
You see, Fox News reporter, Jennifer Griffin, was telling about her new battle beyond the war zones of the world - it was with Stage III, Triple Negative breast cancer. The deadliest kind.
That’s what I had.

Reporter battles deadliest breast cancer
I wish they had spent more time on what makes a breast cancer a Triple Negative, but perhaps that’s my job.
I was diagnosed in 2002, upon a second opinion examination at the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. In Reno, where I live and first got the news about having cancer, they’d told me that they’d caught it early, and it was very small.
Hardly the correct picture, hence the critical need for a second opinion.
My tumor, upon biopsy and examination was huge, more than six centimeters across. The cells, upon microscopic examination, were negative for HER 2 protein Receptor, so the targeted therapy of Herceptin would not be available to me.
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