Breast cancer survivor prepares for Broad Street Run after yearlong treatment
Now cancer free, breast cancer survivor Tamara Scott is preparing to run the Independence Blue Cross Broad Street Run as a symbol of resilience and recovery.
What began as marathon training for Tamara Scott quickly shifted into a battle she never expected when she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. Now cancer-free, she is preparing to run the Independence Blue Cross Broad Street Run as a symbol of resilience and recovery. Scott, an experienced runner, said she had been training for the Marine Corps Marathon two years ago when she first noticed something unusual.
"I was rubbing my arm and randomly brushed the top of my chest and felt something on the side of my hand," she said. "And watched it for a little bit. It didn't go away.
And so I thought, this is kind of weird. And I called my gynecologist. " After a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy confirmed the diagnosis, Scott underwent an MRI that she described as emotionally overwhelming.
"That was very difficult. I was crying so much," she said. "Because they're doing an MRI of your chest - if you're crying, you're moving a lot, it takes two, three times as long to do it because I was just crying so much.