DOHA: As October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sandee Thompson, a 53-year-old single woman in Qatar for three years, has agreed to share her experience as a breast cancer patient.
She is an EFL Instructor at College of the North Atlantic Qatar and this is her second experience with breast cancer.
She received treatment at National Cancer Care Centre and Research at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC). She is a two-time breast cancer survivor and says she has travelled to the edge and back again, twice.
At the time of her first diagnosis, she was in the middle of a huge life transition. During her second diagnosis, she was living in a foreign country and didn’t know how to navigate the medical system. Both were learning experiences for her and she has come out of them stronger than when she went in.
The Peninsula
