Lynda Altman and her husband Howard
"Turns out, I married Superman," Lynda Altman says.
Indeed, Altman needed a hero. She found one in her husband, Howard.
Diagnosed in September 2011 with breast cancer, the 50-year-old Arkansas mom of four is now in treatment for stage 1 invasive ductal carcinoma, an aggressive case that warranted chemotherapy.
For her, cancer meant a undergoing a double mastectomy and reconstruction, breaking the news to her kids, coping with hair loss and second-guessing her doctors. (She writes about her cancer experiences in a diary for Yahoo! Shine.)
"Treatment for breast cancer is awful," she writes in a first-person account.
But Howard, whom she calls her best friend, soul mate and a man of steel, saw her through.
"Over the course of this year, my husband has been a rock for me. I could not have survived this ordeal without him," Altman says.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Yahoo News asked women who had breast cancer or who are in treatment to write about the people in their lives who stood by them and cared for them.
In their own words, here are excerpts from some of their stories:
27/10/2012 : Tim Skillern / Yahoo News.
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