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Bobbi Albany’s doctors didn’t discuss sexual side effects with her or offer meaningful help when she brought them up. In this month’s What I Wish I Knew, she talks about the need for more conversation and support around sex and intimacy for women with breast cancer.

Like many women who have had breast cancer, Dalynn Coffman found emotional effects stuck around long after treatment. She spoke to LBBC about being diagnosed with cancer-related PTSD and how she has learned to manage it.

When Izabela Gardula was diagnosed breast cancer, she was happy to learn she wouldn’t need a port. But after months of needle sticks, all in her right arm, she wishes she asked more questions.

Lourdes, a single mother living with metastatic breast cancer writes about the financial stress she has been under during breast cancer treatment and how the LBBC Fund helped.

In response to COVID-19, many people with breast cancer are meeting with their healthcare providers virtually.

When the COVID-19 outbreak hit the U.S., Janice Cowden, who lives with metastatic breast cancer but has tested no evidence of disease, had to delay her regular scan and appointment. Soon, she was ill with COVID-like symptoms, but with no tests available she found herself struggling with uncertainty about her recent illness and the status of her cancer diagnosis.

Through two breast cancer diagnoses, Michelle McGree struggled with fear of recurrence she wanted to get rid of before learning to manage it instead.

Though Katie Budris and her doctors took efforts to prevent lymphedema during breast cancer treatment, minor swelling in her arm soon worsened. Katie spoke with LBBC contributing writer Robin Warshaw about her experience with lymphedema.

In this uncertain time, Lynn shares the coping tools in her toolkit that have worked for her since an early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2009.

Erica Bleznak went for genetic testing and found that a mutation on the BRCA1 gene greatly raised the chances that she would be diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer. She decided to get a prophylactic double mastectomy and oophorectomy to lower her risk of cancer.