IN Peters Township December 2019/January 2020 | Page 8

“Thank goodness
I went for the
mammogram.”
DANEEN PLUMLEY, BREAST CANCER PATIENT
Daneen found
time for a
screening,
just in time
Like many women, Daneen Plumley, 59, put off getting a
mammogram. When she fi nally went to Canonsburg Hospital in
May, it had been 12 years since her last one. Additional testing
detected stage one breast cancer. “I certainly wasn’t expecting
that,” she said. “If I’d waited longer, it could have been too late.”
Soon she met her medical oncologist, Diane Buchbarker, MD,
and Dr. Mark Gannon, MD, her surgeon. Dr. Gannon removed
the tumor in July, and was able to reassure her that the cancer
hadn’t spread to her lymph nodes.
Daneen got through it all with prayers and support from her
large family. “A lot of days you just want to curl up and avoid life,
but it feels better to be positive,” she said.
She also appreciated her AHN breast cancer navigator, Lee Ann
Dobson RN, MS, CBCN. “Lee Ann was wonderful,” said Daneen.
“She answered my questions, told me what to do next, and
called just to see how I was doing.”
Daneen had genetic testing and is moving ahead with radiation
treatments.
She is looking forward to being a cancer survivor, and fulfi lling
her plans to travel out west with her husband, John.
1 8
3.1 MILLION
IN
WOMEN
WILL DEVELOP BREAST CANCER IN THEIR LIFETIME*
BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS IN THE U.S.*
https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/facts-and-fi gures-2019.html