Explore real patient journeys that share the full experience at Vega—from the first consultation through recovery and results, told through the perspectives of the people who lived them.
The night Lindsay Gruhn told her three children she had breast cancer, she gathered them in the family room of their Webster, New York, home and made them a promise she had no way of knowing she could keep. “You guys, Mom has breast cancer. It’s going to be okay. We’re going to get through […]
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Loretta’s Path Through Breast Cancer and Reconstruction For years, Loretta Cottrell had helped hundreds of patients wake up from surgery in the recovery rooms at Highland Hospital. She knew the rhythms of healing, the sounds of monitors, the relief in patients’ eyes when they realized their surgery was over. What she hadn’t expected was to […]
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Sally sat in her car by Canandaigua Lake, tears streaming down her face. At 37, she’d learned she carried a genetic mutation: a ticking time bomb in her DNA that, combined with her family history, gave her up to a 90% chance of developing breast cancer. The PALB2 mutation that had already wreaked havoc on […]
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