What NOT to say

[Uben]

1. Thanks for saying this

I know it's hard to come up with anything to say when one finds out a friend or loved one has cancer, but some people speak before they think. Carol had been getting mammograms yearly before her diagnosis in 2002, but had quit because every time she had one, they would always call her back in because she had fibrocystic breast disease and they thought there might be something hiding behind the lumps. Everytime, for years, so she stopped having mammograms annually.

Since she had a double radical mastectomy in 2002, she had no breasts to mammogram, but recurred with stage four breast cancer nine years later.