In early December 2008 I was in the shower and noticed a lump in my left breast. My annual mammogram was coming up on December 23rd so I didn't think too much about it. I went for my mammogram and I saw something on the images of my left breast. I had an ultrasound and saw a mass that scared me. It's like my life went in to slow motion. Ironically I had been working on a research project for a new type mammography machine using digital 3-D tomograpahy to hopefully diagnose breast cancer earlier...