After giving birth to her daughter, Ellie, in July 2020, Elissa Kalver noticed she had unusual aches and pains. She visited her doctor and underwent blood tests, but her results looked normal. For months, doctors tried to understand what was going on but couldn’t find anything wrong. While she was getting dressed one day, her husband, Eric, “copped a feel,' Kalver joked, and he felt a lump in her breast. “ was near my breasts,” Kalver, 36, of Woodland Hills, California, told TODAY.
' She started eight rounds of chemotherapy, which shrunk many of the tumors. And, she also started two antibody treatments that targeted the HER2 protein. “Once we stopped chemo, I continued on these infusions every three weeks,” she said. “I have breast cancer friends who've been on that for 10 years, five years, really long periods of time and have very symptoms.