2025-05-08
38 分钟It was January of 2023.
I felt a little lump in my left breast.
And I think it was right before a menstrual cycle, so I didn't really think much of it.
Anne Young is a doctor.
In her early 30s, she was living in Boston, Massachusetts.
She was active, strong and healthy.
She didn't drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes.
and she had no family history of cancer.
I'm a physician, so I knew that most lumps in breasts are benign,
especially in young women, without any sort of prior history, with a pretty healthy lifestyle.
So I just kind of tucked it away, and I thought to myself, like, oh,
I should probably feel for that again in a couple months, see what it's doing.
And then it was April 4th that I felt it again.
kind of feels harder.
And then that night in the shower, I was feeling it again.
And actually at this point felt some lumps in my armpit.
And it was actually at that point I knew I had cancer
because there's really nothing else that causes both a lump in a breast as well as local lymph nodes like that without any sort of trauma or infection or inflammatory condition.
And so I knew in that moment that something was deeply, profoundly wrong.
Breast cancer normally affects middle-aged and older women.