“This is what a survivor looks like.”
Maria joined Dave and Mike over Zoom from Buffalo for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A yearly mammogram in 2015 found stage zero lobular carcinoma in situ, followed by five years of tamoxifen. Screening every six months at Roswell Park then caught a stage one cancer on an MRI in 2024. She walked through her lumpectomy, eight rounds of chemotherapy that started on her birthday, five weeks of radiation, and the people she met along the way, and closed by asking listeners to get their mammograms and talk to their own doctor about when to start.
Dave’s cousin Maria Kendzierski joins from Buffalo on being diagnosed with breast cancer twice: a stage zero finding at her yearly mammogram in 2015, screening every six months at Roswell Park, and the 2024 MRI that caught a stage one cancer early. Plus chemo, radiation and ringing the bell after both.
Watch on YouTube →Read the recap: How Screening Every Six Months Caught Maria Kendzierski’s Second Breast Cancer Early
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