NEWPORT—The American Cancer Society estimates that one in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. For some, the diagnosis alone can feel paralyzing. For 53-year-old Christy Adams, who
NEWPORT—The American Cancer Society estimates that one in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. For some, the diagnosis alone can feel paralyzing. For 53-year-old Christy Adams, who
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Her doctors thought it was just a cyst. The drained fluid from it came back benign.
“Each time that they drained it, it would come back bigger and bigger and I knew that was God’s way of saying ‘hey there’s a problem here, don’t just keep getting it drained,’” Adams said.
She had it drained 6 times before the doctors decided to take a closer look. He did a lumpectomy and he actually found the cancer hiding behind the cyst, Adams said. That s why a mammogram did not detect it.
That s when treatment started. She had two different types of chemo, including one called The Red Devil.