Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept-Oct 2018

45 www.VoteBestOfMP.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ClemsonCarolinaTickets.com feature BY ANNE SHULER TOOLE Life After Cancer Stories of Survival and Recovery I t’s a diagnosis nobody wants and a journey that many don’t survive: cancer. This September and October – awareness months for prostate and breast cancer, respectively – people across the country will celebrate the survivors and honor those who lost their battles. According to the American Cancer Society, one in eight women will develop invasive breast cancer in her lifetime, and one in nine men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his. The diagnosis, the treatments, the anxiety and the aftermath are life-changing and something most won’t understand unless they, too, have lived it. A silver lining for those who do win the fight is that there is life after cancer; what can be one of the darkest roads in life medically, physically, emotionally or mentally is lighted by those who understand, and they offer helping hands for guidance along the way. ANDREA GANZ-SEIDERMAN Breast-Cancer Survivor Since her diagnosis in 2014, Ganz-Seiderman can name several people who have helped save her life in many ways. With two areas of malignant breast cancer, Dr. Paul Baron, M.D., a breast surgeon, and Dr. Jeffrey Rose, M.D., an oncologist and hematologist Photo courtesy of Andrea Ganz-Seiderman.