[The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute]

[Group chatting while looking at family photos]
She's just a cutie. They're all cutie. 

Narrator:
Sue Rudnicki has held a lot of titles. Teacher, lawyer, mom. Now, nothing brings her more joy than "Nana." Sue worries that her granddaughters could lose her to cancer. 

[Onscreen text:
Sue Rudnicki
Lobular breast cancer survivor]

Sue:
I had absolutely no symptoms. 

[Background chatter heard as we see doctor talking with Sue, gesturing to mammogram images]

Narrator:
Her regular mammogram revealed a cloudiness on one side of her breast, a series of specialized scans, then confirmed lobular breast cancer. 

Sue:
Mine was a stage four, so it was absolute terror.


Doctor, speaking to Sue in exam room:
So, this is actually the imaging of the breast...

Narrator:
Sue's doctor Arya Roy says, lobular breast cancer is difficult to identify because it does not appear on mammograms as a lump. Rather, it may be a faint line in the milk ducts.

[Onscreen text:
Arya Roy, MD
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute]

Dr. Roy:
Currently, we do not have a specific tool that is only used in lobular breast cancer.

Narrator:
Experience with patients like Sue inspire Dr. Roy to devote groundbreaking research to this common form of breast cancer. At Ohio State, she's collecting a wide range of anonymous data from lobular cancer cases, including Sue's, and training artificial intelligence to predict the likelihood of someone having it so they can identify it sooner.

Dr. Roy:
What Sue had to go through will definitely help a lot of patients with lobular cancer. 

Narrator:
More good news for Sue and her family as she continues to receive optimistic scans from her own treatment. From The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital, I'm Jessi Turnure.