It's hard to believe that I received my diagnosis of triple negative breast cancer only 2 days ago! It was a terrific shock, having read the statistics that 80% of breast biopsies are benign and hearing from 2 close friends that their biopsies were benign. But then, most of my life, I've been "different" - although usually by choice! I haven't yet seen an oncologist, and haven't gotten my hands on my pathology report yet. I've just been doing general research into TNBC since I spent the time waiting to hear the biopsy results mooning in the bliss of denial as I was convinced that I had only one of the many risk factors for breast cancer, and I had breastfed my 3 children for a collective total of 3 years. After difficult conversations with my two grown sons and one of my daughters-in-law about the biopsy results, I started mulling over how embarrassing, almost, it is for me to have breast cancer. I was an active lactation counselor for 20 years, wrote a short manual on breastfeeding still found in breastfeeding clinics here, and my master's thesis involved a topic on breastfeeding. Huh. If I had a dollar for every time I quoted a study on the protective benefit of breastfeeding against breast cancer...... Anyhoo, the good news is that it was caught very early, the lump is only 1.5 mm. It was caught by routine mammography, followed by ultrasound, followed by biopsy. So here's to early detection!