Goshen Health News & Articles

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  Single-dose radiation treatment for breast cancer gives patient her life back

  10/04/2023

  The first time Barbara Sheets had a breast biopsy, she felt relieved. The suspicious spot was nothing more than fibroid tumors—not cancer. A second biopsy years later showed the same result.

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  College professor learns the power of knowledge when facing a cancer diagnosis

  06/19/2023

  Time stood still for Rachael Hoffert when she heard she had breast cancer. In her mind, she was too young, at age 42, to think much about cancer. She thought she had found a cyst during a self-exam, not something serious.

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  Breast cancer survivor treats herself to humor and a positive outlook

  10/11/2022

  Amy Schwartz couldn’t keep her mind from going to a worst-case scenario when she learned she had breast cancer. She was age 42 – decades younger than the median age of 62 for women at diagnosis. Her cancer was triple positive. That meant it was an aggressive form of the disease. She was Stage 2B. The lump she had found in her left breast during a self-exam was large – nearly 90 millimeters.

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