Stacy's Story

In June of 2007, Stacy Brennan heard the words that everyone fears “You have cancer.” There are so many ways to react to those words when your future becomes unclear but Stacy’s first words were this cannot affect our boys lives. Over the next several months Stacy underwent many stages of cancer treatment, a mastectomy which revealed her cancer was already at stage 2 because of lymph node infiltration. Immediately following her mastectomy she endured 6 months of intensive chemotherapy to hopefully kill off whatever cancer was not removed during her surgery. Stacy, true to her word scheduled her treatments so she would never miss one of our boy’s games and she never did. The next 5 years were filled with blood tests and doctor’s appointments to closely monitor the cancer activity in her body, during this time Stacy became very active in raising money for research to help fight the war against breast cancer. 

In October of 2012 Stacy was not feeling well and tests revealed that her cancer had mediatized to several bones in area of her original cancer. This diagnosis introduced us to Dr. Andrew Seidman at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose brilliance and dedication to breast cancer care and research has given Stacy the last 10 years to live a full life. She has been treated with different medications until their usefulness is expended but the dedication of all the research professionals and her excellent care at MSKCC has given her and many others a hope for a future without breast cancer. 

In March of 2021 the cancer once again found a new home in Stacy’s liver but the monies raised throughout the years have funded research that has given her another medication option which has shrunk the lesions in her liver. Stacy’s battle against breast cancer will never be over but neither will her determination to live and to raise money to help the future generations live a life without this horrible disease.