Cancer Is a Bitch

Jan, that's incredible. I loved the video, too. Thanks for sharing! Please tell us more.

Best,

Sarah

Like Marisa, I was 43 when I was first diagnosed with breast cancer.  At the time I was working at Genentech in South San Francisco as a patent attorney, managing six attorneys and a paralegal.  Also like Marisa, I was diagnosed with stage I cancer, 1.3 cm tumor and treated with CMF, lumpectomy and radiation.  I developed lymphedema a year later and had a recurrence of breast cancer in 2003, still stage I.  This time I had more aggressive chemo and a bilateral mastectomy.  I took Genentech's drug Herceptin and then wrote a book, Mourning Has Broken:  Reflections on Surviving Cancer (2008) about my story.  Last September I gave a talk to my colleagues at Genentech about my cancer experience and book.  At the talk I mentioned Marisa's Cancer Vixen since I had just completed it.  I especially liked her joke about St. Tropez, St. Bart, and St. Vincent's.  In October Genentech interviewed me for their intranet, mentioning my book as well as Marisa's.  I feel we are all sisters on this journey together.  Best, Jan

JAN MY SISTAH!

So glad to hear you're doing swell.

Congrats on your book.

I gave a talk with someone from Genentech in Rome. Me again. Strange how life creates these circles!

Deets:

Marisa, yes, my SISTAH!  I do know Napoleone very well (he's from Silicy) and his incredible work on a cancer growth factor VEGF.  Brava that you could speak with him in Rome.  I bet that was fun.  It is amazing how life creates these global circles.  Kudos on your advocacy.  I'm a lymphedema advocate (a river lymph) and love it! Stay well. XXO, Jan  

it was an interesting panel. 

stay well my sistah, stay well.

pink on earth,

marisa

Thanks PJ, and thanks for ALL YOU DO!
XO

Marisa