“I was devastated. I asked, ‘How could this happen?’ I work out. I’m very healthy, I’m active. I don’t have a family history of breast cancer'
It seemed impossible. She was 32, fit and experienced with symptoms of the disease as an oncology nurse in suburban Atlanta.
April Addison gave birth to her son Ashton on June 27, 2022. She was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer the next day.Now Addison and her doctor are urging women of all ages to get checked out if they see or feel any changes in their breasts. Most are diagnosed with breast cancer when they’re over 40, but Dr. Amelia Zelnak has treated patients as young as in their early 20s.
“Women expect their breasts to change during pregnancy… it’s easy to see how someone might not immediately think, ‘I need to get this checked out,’” Zelnak says. Addison gave birth to a healthy baby boy on June 27, 2022. The next day, she found out the biopsy results showed she had stage 2 breast cancer. She needed to start chemotherapy in two weeks.
Being a patient was a difficult transition for the nurse, who says she lost a sense of control and had a hard time letting people care for her. But she also thinks she’ll be able to give better care to patients now that she’s been on the other side. Addison now knows first-hand the pain of having a port placed or the isolation of being inside a noisy CT scanner.
The Addison family includes, from left to right, mom April, 3-year-old Aiden, baby Ashton and dad Leo.Still, the nurse wonders why the ordeal happened to her. Genetic testing showed she didn't have any gene mutations known to increase the risk of breast cancer. Studies have found about“The most common risk factors for getting breast cancer are being female and getting older, but for a patient like April who is so young with no family history, there’s just not an obvious explanation.
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