{"id":45323,"date":"2024-10-07T09:47:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/vroee-diagnose-is-belangrik-20241002-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:23:34","slug":"vroee-diagnose-is-belangrik-20241002-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/vroee-diagnose-is-belangrik-20241002-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Borskanker: &#8216;Vroe\u00eb diagnose is belangrik\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cDit het letterlik gevoel asof iemand \u2019n bak ys in my gesig gooi en die wind uit my seile skop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00f3 onthou Queena Bartlett-Brink van Saldanha die oomblik toe fase 3-estrogeen-reseptor-positiewe borskanker in 2010 op 36-jarige ouderdom by haar gediagnoseer is \u2013 \u2019n diagnose wat sy glad nie verwag het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Borskankermaand vind in Oktober plaas om bewusmaking te skep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Queena het sy \u2019n knop op haar bors ontdek toe sy haar n\u00e1 \u2019n bad afgedroog het. As \u2019n geregistreerde milit\u00eare verpleegkundige het sy besef sy moet die knop dophou en vasstel of dit groter of kleiner word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk was nie onmiddellik angstig en het nie aan kanker gedink nie; ek het meer in die lyn van \u2019n onskadelike sist gedink,\u201d s\u00ea Queena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die eerste stap wat sy geneem het, was \u2019n mammogram, gevolg deur \u2019n biopsie van die knop. Queena s\u00ea die biopsie-uitslae het \u2019n tydjie geneem en die gewag het soos \u2019n ewigheid gevoel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-spesifieke-behandeling\">Spesifieke behandeling<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie dokter wat die nuus van die biopsie-uitslae aan my oorgedra het, kon dit anders hanteer het. Die nuus is telefonies oorgedra terwyl ek saam met my 10-jarige dogter en vyfjarige seun in \u2019n winkelsentrum was \u2013 juis om net \u2019n bietjie uit die huis te kom en my gedagtes weg te bring van die uitslae. Ek weet tot vandag toe nie hoe ek n\u00e1 die nuus huis toe bestuur het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queena se behandeling was baie spesifiek en is deur \u2019n groep dokters beplan. Omdat die kanker-massa so groot was, was ses maande se chemoterapie by Groote Schuur- hospitaal die eerste stap om di\u00e9 massa te laat krimp. Queena is dankbaar vir die span wat na haar omgesien het en beskryf hulle as engele met vlerke in uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die tweede stap was om die linkerbors te laat verwyder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie operasie was vir my soos \u2019n hoogtepunt en so mal soos dit klink, was dit vir my \u2019n fisieke skeiding van die kanker \u2013 die kanker wat aan my gekleef het sonder my toestemming, soos \u2019n skelm wat my lewe wou steel, maar net weggekom het met my vlees, my siel intak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dokters het vasgestel die kanker was ook in haar limfkliere in haar onderarm teenwoordig. Dit is ook verwyder. 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