Pate went through two surgeries, five months of chemotherapy, 33 courses of radiation and four years of tamoxifen, a daily pill that cuts off the fuel source for this very estrogen receptor–positive (ER+) disease. “After I hung up, I went to my computer and typed in ‘globular breast cancer,’” said Pate, a 51-year-old public policy consultant from Seattle of her diagnosis seven years ago. The mammogram had been clean - like so many before it - but the ultrasound and biopsy told another story.
The first time Leigh Pate* heard the term was when she got a phone call from her doctor following a series of diagnostic tests. Viruses, Vaccines and Infectious Diseases.Institutional Partners & Collaborations.Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division.Subscribe to Oncology Insights Newsletter.
