After interviews with 86 cancer caregivers and dozens more touched in various ways by the disease, Deborah Cornwall was ready to put her evolving project on paper. A breast cancer survivor herself, Cornwall had spent years contemplating and preparing to write a book unlike anything that existed.
It’s no secret that good nutrition is a key component in breast health and disease prevention. But sometimes it takes a little reminding as to what good nutrition really is, and there is no better time for a primer than during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Doctors have tools to help estimate a woman’s personal risk, but women who get breast cancer sometimes have no known risk factors besides age. Many women with one or more risk factors never get breast cancer. So it’s impossible to know who will actually get the disease.
As a radiation oncologist at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mt Kisco, N.Y., Dr. Elizabeth Chabner Thompson sees cancer patients day in and day out. But Thompson’s knowledge of breast cancer is not limited to the hospital room — the physician’s own life has been touched by the disease in many ways.
In 1980, at 34 years old, Janelle Hail was facing breast cancer — a disease most women only whispered about. So when she beat it, she wanted to help change the status quo. In 1991, she founded the National Breast Cancer Foundation, which counts as its main mission providing free mammograms and other screening exams for women who can’t afford them.
Whether you are doing good for the cause or doing good for you and your loved ones, there are tons of ways to raise breast cancer awareness this month. Here are 31 ideas, one for each day of October:
In their own words, breast cancer survivors offer insight on challenges they faced, how they overcame them, and what advice they offer for those who are newly diagnosed.
The headline: You can lower your risk for breast cancer even if you have a family history.
Breast cancer treatment often involves more than one approach. The treatment plan your doctor suggests will be based on several factors, such as:
Click inside to watch this video of Giuliana Rancic back in the E! newsroom Monday after undergoing breast cancer surgery just five days earlier. She thanks all her fans for their pink support.
