{"id":3754,"date":"2026-10-27T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/kabarsula-dealing-with-her-own-scare-with-breast-cancer-helped-townsend-resident-become-survivor-advocate-i-had-a-calm-come-over-me-bandar-slot-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:42:06","slug":"kabarsula-dealing-with-her-own-scare-with-breast-cancer-helped-townsend-resident-become-survivor-advocate-i-had-a-calm-come-over-me-bandar-slot-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/kabarsula-dealing-with-her-own-scare-with-breast-cancer-helped-townsend-resident-become-survivor-advocate-i-had-a-calm-come-over-me-bandar-slot-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"kabarsula Dealing with her own scare with breast cancer helped Townsend resident become survivor advocate: ‘I had a calm come over me’ bandar SLOT INDONESIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bishop Emeritus W. Francis Malooly poses with cancer survivor Lois Wilkinson after the 2025 Mass for Breast Cancer survivors. Courtesy photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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So many people have either suffered with breast cancer or known someone close to them<\/a> who has dealt with the affliction.<\/p>\n

A parishioner of St. Joseph in Middletown, Lois Wilkinson has seen the scary-but-also-manageable disease from every angle.<\/p>\n

More than two decades ago, Wilkinson was working as a manager of a physician\u2019s office when she became concerned that she would need to be checked for breast cancer. Two days before Thanksgiving in 2002, she had a biopsy. Being employed by doctors, she knew how the process would go and just like everyone else she waited for results. A phone call came while she was at work in the office.<\/p>\n

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She learned it was a positive test result and surgery would be necessary. She told her boss, who encouraged her to take the rest of the day off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI drove to Holy Cross Church in Dover and went in and prayed,\u201d she said. \u201cI just had a trust in God. I had a sense that he was going to help me. Through my faith, he was going to help me. I just put it all in his hands. His hands and the doctor\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a calm come over me that I was going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was.<\/p>\n

And new doors opened for Wilkinson, a Townsend resident, as she encountered Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition,<\/a> a nonprofit that empowers communities by raising awareness of breast health issues through survivorship support services, outreach, and education, to facilitate the early detection and treatment of breast cancer. Before long, she was working for the group running its peer mentor program in the Dover office, a one-one-one support program for people diagnosed with breast cancer, she said.<\/p>\n

October is breast cancer awareness month, an annual campaign to educate and increase awareness. It\u2019s another chance for survivors to share their story.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have people that are multiple years of survivorship,\u201d Wilkinson said of the support program. \u201cAnd they come and they help with people that are newly diagnosed. To help them know what it\u2019s like to go through chemo, lose their hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilkinson retired three years ago as director of survivorship for Kent and New Castle County. She stayed with the group and is now part-time with \u201cNurture with Nature\u201d program. It\u2019s a support program in nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery month, we have one or two outings, we go to a nature center, hike, bike, boat ride, climb a light house. In wintertime we make Christmas stuff, centerpieces. Everything we do has something to do with nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s calming and soothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group of survivors meets at St. Joseph\u2019s the second Wednesday of every month from 5:30-7 p.m. at the parish. It\u2019s a free program aimed at giving encouragement to anyone dealing with breast cancer.<\/p>\n

Through her own struggle with breast cancer, she has learned to overcome the worry and concern while encountering and helping others who have dealt with the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got stronger in my faith,\u201d she said. \u201cThanking God for having saved my life, it just brought me deeper to my faith. God helped me through a difficult situation and he made me a stronger person as a result of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA breast cancer conversation\u201d is a free program held at St. Joseph\u2019s in Middletown and open to anyone diagnosed with breast cancer. Join other breast cancer survivors for encouragement, support, fellowship, friendship, knowledge and hope. Contact Lois at lwilkinson@debreastcancer.org.<\/em><\/p>\n

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