Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer

‘We have all survived’: Cessna family copes with multiple diagnoses of breast cancer
When her daughter called last spring, it was bad news that Belva K. Mock hoped she would never receive again.

October 28, 2011 1 Photo
‘It has a special place in my heart’: Physician assistant leaves military hospital and joins breast cancer fight
After working for 10 years at premier military hospitals in major metropolitan areas, Heather Johnston is embracing the different world she has found as a physician assistant at Joyce Murtha Breast Care Center in Windber.

October 27, 2011 1 Photo
Breast cancer survivor discovers new lease and outlook on life
Now that she has survived breast cancer, Carrie Spinos of Richland Township wants to experience life more.

October 26, 2011 1 Photo
Cancer patient grateful for ‘exceptional medical care’
As Christmas of 2010 approached, all seemed well in Annette Hines-McFadden’s world.

October 25, 2011 1 Photo
Woman who faced breast cancer twice looks for silver lining
Three times, Rose (Murphy) Williams, 60, of Carrolltown had to give the love of her life bad news about cancer.
The first two times she had to tell her husband, Blaine, that she had breast cancer.
Then last year, she had to tell him he had esophageal cancer.

October 24, 2011 1 Photo
‘I was lucky to find it early’: Mom discovers lump after losing daughter to cancer
Barely 18 months after her youngest daughter died from breast cancer, 76-year-old Patricia Barefoot discovered a lump on her own breast.

October 21, 2011 1 Photo
Angling for a cure: Indiana County woman finds fly-fishing program therapeutic
Dorothy Klyap of Indiana County is fishing for women just like her.

October 20, 2011 1 Photo
‘I have too much to live for’: Johnstown woman stresses importance of second opinions
Tammy Stuver is a person on the go who wasn’t about to let breast cancer keep her down for long.

October 19, 2011 1 Photo
Family, friends help cancer patient cope
Jean E. Andrews of Old Conemaugh Borough has lived in the Johnstown area all of her 58 years.
Andrews, a breast cancer survivor, said it was the long-term relationships she formed in her life that got her through her ordeal with cancer.

October 18, 2011 1 Photo
‘Nobody could have been more shocked’
Donald C. Shaffer knew there was something wrong.
The changes he was noticing around his nipple were becoming more painful.
His family doctor had examined the hard lumps a few weeks earlier, but the pain was not going away.
That was in the spring of 2010.

October 17, 2011 1 Photo
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