Megan Diaz has recently been diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. The 19-year-old is a 2009 graduate of Ganado High School. Her parents, Albert and Belinda, have arranged for Megan to receive treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Cancer won't stop her
by Chris Lundstrum
(Posted 7/29/2010)
June 16 is a day that Megan Diaz will probably never forget. It is the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Cancer was the last thing on her mind when she found a lump in her breast in April. The 19-year-old Ganado graduate has always been athletic and healthy. She was named All State and All District in softball during her high school athletic career, was voted Miss GHS by her peers and is currently majoring in science at The Victoria College. Her days are filled with school, work, studying, and volunteering as a mentor in the PALS program in Ganado. So when she noticed the lump, she just assumed it was a cyst.
“I thought, ‘oh my gosh, this wasn’t here the day before.’ It fell like a little ball rolling around,” she said. Megan made an appointment with her gynecologist who examined her and sent her to Citizen’s Hospital to get an ultrasound, From there she was sent to a surgeon, who because of the shape of the lump, told her it needed to be removed...
