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“I knew before they even told me,” she recalls. “I cried, but told myself ‘I’ve got this, I can do this.’”
A firm believer in women having mammograms, Craig’s breast cancer was found by that method. “I’ve been having mammograms since I was 30 years old even though I have no family history of breast cancer,” she says. “But, Black women do have a high incidence of breast cancer.”
Although her form of cancer is not genetic, she encourages her two daughters and all women to have regular mammograms.
A needle biopsy supported the diagnosis of Craig’s stage one cancer, a type that is hormone sensitive.
Dr. John Bailey with South Mississippi Surgeons says, “Mrs. Craig had invasive cancer, lobular carcinoma, that is seen less frequently than cancer of the ductal cells. Her lymph nodes were not cancerous,
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inda Craig of Pascagoula is optimistic and a fighter. That’s why receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer didn’t get her down.
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