{"id":22637,"date":"2020-04-10T20:52:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=310910"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:48","slug":"chaunte-lowe-has-competed-in-4-olympic-games-and-isnt-letting-breast-cancer-stop-her-from-the-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/chaunte-lowe-has-competed-in-4-olympic-games-and-isnt-letting-breast-cancer-stop-her-from-the-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaunt\u00e9 Lowe Has Competed In 4 Olympic Games, And Isn\u2019t Letting Breast Cancer Stop Her From The 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chaunt\u00e9 Lowe is a phenomenal athlete who has competed in the Olympics four different times: Athens in 2004, Beijing in 2008, London in 2012, and Rio in 2016. She holds the American record for indoor and outdoor high jump.<\/span>She is also a recent breast cancer survivor.<\/span>\u201cI am training, and I have trained through chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, and treatment for breast cancer,\u201d Lowe told Susan G. Komen<\/a>. \u201cI know that through it, I can bring a lot of attention to this cause and I know that it will help us eradicate this disease that has ravaged so many of us.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/Susan G. Komen<\/span>When Lowe was 34, she found a lump about the size of a grain of rice in her breast. She underwent a check-up with her doctor, but he told her it was nothing and that he \u201cdefinitively<\/a>\u201d didn\u2019t want to see her for six more years, until she reached the age of 40.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Lowe monitored the lump, and as it grew, so did her anxiety. She\u2019s an exceptional athlete, and she knows her body well. Something was not right.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Instagram\/Chaunte Lowe<\/a><\/span>Nearly a year after her visit with the doctor, she went to another one for a second opinion. She had a biopsy right away, and in June of 2019<\/a>, she was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of the disease that accounts for 10-20% of breast cancer cases<\/a> and disproportionately affects younger people, African Americans, Hispanics, and people with a BRCA1 gene mutation.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/Susan G. Komen<\/span>Black women in the United States are often diagnosed with more aggressive forms of breast cancer than white women, and are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. This is due in part to being diagnosed late. Her doctor\u2019s misdiagnosis put Lowe on a delayed track for treatment, but she\u2019s doing great despite the error and is determined to raise awareness.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cI wish that somebody would\u2019ve told me about my risk,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cAt [the time of my diagnosis], I felt like it was my personal responsibility to share everything that I had learned about battle, fighting, perseverance, overcoming obstacles, endurance, that it was my responsibility to teach other women this.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Instagram\/Chaunte Lowe<\/a><\/span>Lowe underwent a double mastectomy and chemotherapy \u2014 and kept up her Olympic training through it all. She had her sights set on competing in the 2020 Olympic Games. When the coronavirus started sweeping through the world, Lowe was worried about how her weakened immune system would withstand possibly being exposed to the virus during the trip. But she was still determined to go.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Now the 2020 games have been delayed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though Lowe says the postponement of the Olympics to 2021 was a smart choice, it has had an exhausting impact on the athletes expecting to compete.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/Susan G. Komen<\/span>\u201cYou put your life on hold for the Olympics. Imagine if you\u2019ve ever been on a tough diet, and you\u2019re like, \u2018OK, I could hold it for this long, but at this point in time, I\u2019m going to break,’\u201d she told CNN<\/a>. \u201cAnd now they\u2019re telling you everything that you\u2019ve done to put your life on hold, you have to do it a whole other year \u2014 it\u2019s going to be very difficult.\u201d<\/span>Athletes are at their peak readiness right now, and they basically have to stay in a holding pattern mentally and physically for another year.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/Susan G. Komen<\/span>Her experience was breast cancer has made Lowe passionate about advocating for women and raising awareness for this awful disease.<\/span>\u201cYou know your body better than any doctor. Don\u2019t let them tell you that it is nothing,\u201d she wrote on Instagram<\/a>. \u201cKeep pressing until you are satisfied. I did self breast exams at least weekly in the shower and know the exact day the lump showed up, and still it took 9-10 months for medical personnel to take me seriously because of my age. I don\u2019t drink, I don\u2019t smoke, I exercise regularly and none of that made a difference. Cancer doesn\u2019t care. Get checked!\u201d<\/span>Thankfully, Lowe\u2019s treatment was successful<\/a> and she has no evidence of cancer cells remaining.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chaunt\u00e9 Lowe is a phenomenal athlete who has competed in the Olympics four different times: Athens in 2004, Beijing in 2008, London in 2012, and Rio in 2016. She holds the American record for indoor and outdoor high jump.She is also a recent breast cancer survivor.\u201cI am training, and I have trained through chemotherapy, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44307,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions\/44307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}