New Jersey 101.5 » komen for the cure http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Thu, 23 May 2013 03:11:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Forget the Politics, Give to Komen for a Cure http://nj1015.com/donate-to-komen-for-the-cure/ http://nj1015.com/donate-to-komen-for-the-cure/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 11:30:20 +0000 Steve Trevelise http://nj1015.com/?p=100508 Six weeks after our sons Albert and Lennon were born ,my wife Deneen went for a postpartum checkup. What they found was a lump in her right breast. Within weeks it was diagnosed as invasive ductal carcinoma, another way of saying breast cancer. What followed was a lumpectomy, 16 weeks of chemotherapy, 6 weeks of radiation , and 18 months of a drug called Herceptin. She’s currently on a drug called tamoxifen which blocks her body from producing estrogen. During this ordeal she lost all her hair an a considerable amount of weight.

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