HER breast cancer diagnosis was a shock in itself, but the fact that she had two different types of breast cancer at the same time was also a shocking discovery.
“The fact that there’s more than one type of breast cancer was news to me,” journalist Ilza Roggeband told us earlier this year (My breast cancer journey, 12 January 2023). “And during conversations following my diagnosis, I discovered I’m not the only woman who didn’t know that.”
When someone has more than one cancer at the same time or within six months after diagnosis of the first cancer, it’s known as synchronous breast cancer, says Dr Fatima Hoosain, specialist surgeon at Apffelstaedt, Hoosain & Associates.
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