Sisters4Prevention Breast Cancer Stories and Survival
Since my diagnosis fourteen years ago, I have been dedicated to researching lifestyle changes and supporting clinical research to achieve the prevention of breast cancer. My goal is to raise awareness of the need for research funding for the primary prevention of women's cancers and to share information to help those facing this journey. My posts are educational and include my journey with bilateral breast cancer and my year of treatment including a double mastectomy and reconstruction. I have been a breast cancer advocate since 2010 and have served on panels at the department of defense breast cancer funding review programs. My website shares all the information I have collected and verified from long term survivors and medical evidence. I am not a medical professional, simply a teacher who hopes to make a difference by sharing information. I presently serve as one of three breast cancer advocates on the pending clinical trial under the direction of Dr. Vincent Tuohy at the Cleveland clinic to prevent the recurrence of triple negative breast cancer, the most lethal form of the disease began in the Fall of in 2021.I am a graduate of the National Breast Cancer Coalition's Project LEAD and have lobbied Congress for additional funds for prevention clinical trials for breast and ovarian cancers. In 2022, I was invited to be a Komen Advocate in Science. Stay tuned...
Sisters4Prevention Breast Cancer Stories and Survival
Important information for all women and especially mothers with daughters. Breast cancer risk and the importance of the Estrogen Gene Test.
T.J. Hills was a busy working mother of 3 young boys in 2009 when she was diagnosed with an aggressive Stage III breast cancer. Like over 80% of breast cancer patients, she was the first person in her extended family to be diagnosed. She later learned that while there was no family history of cancer there was extensive medical conditions resulting from less than perfect estrogen metabolism; conditions such as endometriosis, fibroid tumors, infertility and ovarian cysts.
She took a simple gene test and learned how to improve her estrogen health with easy steps including common nutritional supplements like fish oil and Vitamin C and ones less widely known like DIM.
TJ took many estrogen medications and substances before her breast cancer diagnosis and believes she would have made many different choices if she knew about her estrogen capabilities earlier.
Common everyday choices that women make can be better informed by taking an estrogen metabolism gene test.
Should I take the birth control pill? My daughter is 11 and is having painful periods. Should she take the birth control pill? Should I take hormone replacement therapy or bioidentical hormone therapy? Should I take fertility medications?
How many rounds of ovulation induction? I want to wait to have a baby, should I freeze my eggs now?
If I have breast cancer in my family, are birth control pills or fertility meds or hormone replacement therapy options safe for me? I already have estrogen-fueled breast cancer, is there anything I can do to improve my prognosis odds?