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PATIENT
PROFILES
Meet Melanie Tramonte, breast
cancer survivor
 Engage
in a short conversation with Melanie Tramonte, and you will
quickly find this is a woman who has a zest for life. You
will also find that she comes from a family with a long history
of Breast Cancer — having
lost four aunts and two cousins to the disease, it was
not a shock for her when she found out she too had a tumor.
It was found during a routine mammogram.
When she opened the envelope that held her films, she could
tell something was not right. “My first reaction was fear, but having
seen so many members of my family face this challenge, I
knew I was up for it,” says Tramonte.
From the moment I stepped foot into OncoLogics,
I knew I was in a place that was special,” recalls
Tramonte.
“When they found the cancer in October of 2002, it
was in Stage 1, so I was lucky. The tumor was removed through
a lumpectomy, and I only had to have radiation to follow
it up. From the moment I stepped foot into OncoLogics, I
knew I was in a place that was special,” recalls Tramonte. “As
a patient, they treat you as a person, with honor and dignity.
They really get to know you, and by the end of the treatment
you feel like part of one big family.” So much that
her daughter Melissa now works for OncoLogics. “They
really have become part of my family,” Tramonte jokes.
Into her sixth-year of being cancer free, when Melanie is
not busy with her job as a billing specialist, she spends
her free time gardening, finding new and exciting Internet
destinations, and enjoying her life as a survivor, happy
to be cancer free.
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