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Survivor of Rare Inflammatory Breast Disease Credits Self-Advocacy, Collaboration for Recovery

Tami Burdick advocates for greater awareness of granulomatous mastitis, or GM, and encourages allopathic and functional medicine practitioners to work together.
Survivor of Rare Inflammatory Breast Disease Credits Self-Advocacy, Collaboration for Recovery
Author Tami Burdick, photographed here in 2021, credits self-advocacy and physician collaboration for her recovery from granulomatous mastitis, or GM, a rare inflammatory breast disease. Courtesy of Tami Burdick
Jeff Louderback
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“It’s probably cancer.”

That is what Tami Burdick thought when she started feeling breast pain and then discovered a hard lump during a self-evaluation more than eight years ago.

Jeff Louderback
Jeff Louderback
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Jeff Louderback covers major news and politics, including the Make America Healthy Again movement and regenerative farming. Since joining The Epoch Times in 2022, he has covered national elections, the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign, the East Palestine train derailment, and the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. Jeff has 30-plus years of professional experience as a reporter, editor, and author.