I Was Told My Lump Was Normal, I Got Diagnosed With Breast Cancer 4 Years Later With Eve Mwenda

okay from your journey first of all i hope you don't mind me asking just a couple of questions do you have a family history of breast cancer ovarian cancer in your family

Um, my mom's younger sister was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024.

Okay.

Um,

but sometimes I, I, this is something that has been going on in my head.

Like when we say, do you have a history? Is it.

one person do you have to have like one person or five people or ten people in your family who've had breast cancer or just one person is enough to say that you you have a history of breast cancer in your family it could be one person just one person it could be one person okay yeah

so usually there's the family history and then there's also self-history because sometimes you can have you can have had either a different cancer mostly reproductive cancer so ovarian uterine but also you can have had breast cancer in one breast

okay

And then you underwent treatment, you finished treatment, you're in remission and everything was well.

And then now it appears in the other breast if the other breast was not treated as well.

Okay.

Yes.

Yes.

It takes just one person for us to see that there's definitely a family history there.

Okay.

And we need to encourage active screening and just surveillance so that we catch things early.

Okay.

yeah does it

matter who which side of the family because now my paternal grandfather who passed away back in 1991 yeah um passed away of prostate cancer if i'm not wrong okay

okay so usually we normally say that if you have a family history of cancer in general be it your paternal or maternal side of the family male or female regardless of your gender there is a risk of cancer for you yeah but then now narrowing it down when it comes to like now gendered cancers breast cancer and the likes it's more for the women but then also remembering that men also do get breast cancer so if you have a family member a male family member who had breast cancer then that is also a higher risk okay yes yeah and the funny thing is well maybe not so funny but the thing that maybe we should be more aware of is breast cancer in men is more aggressive

i've heard that yes yeah so

men should actually also get screened especially if you have a family history yeah

it's rare but also men don't speak up that's true very few men you'll find i mean men of course never always speak up when they're going through some of these things when it's because it's it's breast cancer on a man and you know a lot of people don't understand that also men have breast tissues they might not grow the breast itself yeah that's true that's true

okay from your journey first of all i hope you don't mind me asking just a couple of questions do you have a family history of breast cancer ovarian cancer in your family

Um, my mom's younger sister was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024.

Okay.

Um,

but sometimes I, I, this is something that has been going on in my head.

Like when we say, do you have a history? Is it.

one person do you have to have like one person or five people or ten people in your family who've had breast cancer or just one person is enough to say that you you have a history of breast cancer in your family it could be one person just one person it could be one person okay yeah

so usually there's the family history and then there's also self-history because sometimes you can have you can have had either a different cancer mostly reproductive cancer so ovarian uterine but also you can have had breast cancer in one breast

okay

And then you underwent treatment, you finished treatment, you're in remission and everything was well.

And then now it appears in the other breast if the other breast was not treated as well.

Okay.

Yes.

Yes.

It takes just one person for us to see that there's definitely a family history there.

Okay.

And we need to encourage active screening and just surveillance so that we catch things early.

Okay.

yeah does it

matter who which side of the family because now my paternal grandfather who passed away back in 1991 yeah um passed away of prostate cancer if i'm not wrong okay

okay so usually we normally say that if you have a family history of cancer in general be it your paternal or maternal side of the family male or female regardless of your gender there is a risk of cancer for you yeah but then now narrowing it down when it comes to like now gendered cancers breast cancer and the likes it's more for the women but then also remembering that men also do get breast cancer so if you have a family member a male family member who had breast cancer then that is also a higher risk okay yes yeah and the funny thing is well maybe not so funny but the thing that maybe we should be more aware of is breast cancer in men is more aggressive

i've heard that yes yeah so

men should actually also get screened especially if you have a family history yeah

it's rare but also men don't speak up that's true very few men you'll find i mean men of course never always speak up when they're going through some of these things when it's because it's it's breast cancer on a man and you know a lot of people don't understand that also men have breast tissues they might not grow the breast itself yeah that's true that's true