SHREVEPORT, La. – October is breast cancer awareness month. A time not only for education and early detection, but also for hope and survival.
A local pharmacology professor went from teaching healthcare providers how to treat patients to becoming one herself. She reminds everyone that cancer does not discriminate, and, sometimes, the best thing you can do is listen to your body.
In spring 2019, Emily Weidman-Evans was the picture of health: a triathlete with a clean lifestyle, and no family history of cancer. Her first mammogram at 40 came back completely normal. By October, everything changed.
“I was just getting out of the shower, putting lotion on like you do after you get out of the shower. And I felt I felt the lump. And so I went back in and there was a nearly two centimeter tumor in my breast that had not been there six months ago,” Evans recalls…