to use — but i am grateful| the experience i have of it really pushed me to go and get it checked. - that's amazing. thankfully, i caught it reallyl early because i went straight they diagnosed me with dcis, which is ductal carcinoma - in situ, which basically- means that the milk ducts have turned cancerous. and i also have sickle cell, | so i had to have a full body blood transfusion before i the surgery, which made us have to wait. so in total, it was about eight weeks from diagnosis - to surgery. by the time i had the surgery, the 4cm had become 7cm. - they'd found micro invasion and then micrometastasesl in my armpit. in eight weeks. so, i don't know how it's possible because dcis . is supposed to be - non—invasive, but it did. and i had to get three opinions to get my diagnosis, _ so my main message always is to advocate for yourself —|