I am among the thousands of women every year who discover between the ages of 40 and 49 that we have breast cancer.
We find out after we undergo mammograms.
We find out after we examine ourselves for lumps that may signal the presence of a malignancy.
And we are the women who would go without both of these routine screenings under the task force's proposed guidelines.
I know what that would have meant to my life. It would have been over. Had I not learned how to check for warning signs, and had I not paid attention to my body, I would not have learned at the age of 48 that I was afflicted with Stage 3 breast cancer.
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