The Survivor Files: Amazing Women Share Their Breast Cancer Journeys

By Anne Krueger

There are at least two million women living with breast cancer in the United States, and every one of them has a story to tell. Those who share their journeys on the Internet let us walk, for a moment, in the shoes of a survivor. I’m amazed at the grace these women exhibit under pressure, and I wonder, Where does that grace come from at a time like this?

For Kelly Corrigan, who describes her overall cancer experience as “extremely positive,” it came from the emotional connections she discovered over the course of eight cycles of chemotherapy, a lumpectomy, and two months of radiation for stage III HER2-positive breast cancer—the fast-growing kind. Read More