Guadalajara /
Since March 2019, Roxana Valadez Quintero, who was 39 years old at the time, detected that she had a lump in her right breastAfter attending a check-up with her private doctor, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Despite the fact that she has been in treatment for the last two years, the disease has not stopped, however, her daughter and her family became her driving force not to give up and continue fighting.
“The pain has been constant and increasing and then there are nights that I do not sleep, insomnia has not helped me much and so you say: father, father I have not had it (laughs) but we try to make this a little enjoyable thanks to support from my family. I also have my daughter who is my driving force and without her I don’t know what would have happened, she would have left me, they are part of the strength that I find today, “said Roxana Valadez Quintero.
Currently 41 years old, she is a single mother of a six-year-old girl. Before being diagnosed with this disease, one of the things Roxana loved the most was her job where she worked as an employee in an electronic manufacturing company.
She describes herself as a strong, brave woman with a will to live, proof of this is that in the last two years she has had two biopsies, a radical mastectomy, 16 chemotherapies, 25 radiation treatments, and 16 intravenous chemotherapies.
His fight has intensified as the disease became more aggressive after metastases were also detected in his neck and lung.
Her mother and grandmother, both cancer survivors, are now an example for Roxana, which she considers stopping the disease early saves lives.
“There is nothing like a little book that tells you what to do if you get cancer, all bodies are different and the reaction in each body is different, but the most important thing is to stop on time. Many women do not do it out of fear, or because of fear, but it is the biggest mistake they can make because fear comes later when the body begins to make this sick advance and the longer it lasts, the more difficult and painful, “he commented.
Part of your resilience process is attending a group with surviving women who are still fighting breast cancer., a space where they share their experiences, which make them empower themselves and gain strength to continue fighting.
“Relating to these people who are also sick is great because their experiences help you open your mind so that you can make this more fun,” he said.
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