“You Have Breast Cancer” How can the four words every woman dreads mean something different each time they're spoken? Four brave survivors share why breast cancer and its treatment are now more personal--and personalized--than ever before.
Pictured: LaTonia Taliaferro-Smith, PhD, a researcher at Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, is working hard in finding a cure for cancer in 2012. Eight women in her husband's family have been diagnosed with breast cancer. She specializes on triple negative breast cancer, a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer that disproportionately affects black women and Latino women.
Breast Cancer: A Family Affair While breast cancer can strike young women--one in 227 thirtysomethings will develop it--there's no denying the risk increases substantially as you get older. Figuring out what form, exactly, that vigilance should take can be particularly difficult for those who've watched their mothers battle the illness. Do you make over your lifestyle, start mammograms early, or even submit to prophylactic surgery? Meet three women who changed their lives as a result of their mothers' breast cancer diagnoses--and find out how their experiences can help you protect your health.
Pictured: Breast cancer survivor Marisa Gefen, right, shares a moment with her daughter, Estella Gefen, 5, prior to the Living Beyond Breast Cancer's Reach & Raise massive yoga event on the Philadelphia Art Museum's steps on Sunday, May 19, 2019.
Men with Breast Cancer Fare Worse Researchers say male breast cancer rates rose from 8.6 cases per 1 million in the 1970s to 10.8 cases per million in the 1990s. But the increase was much smaller than that for women, who had a 52 percent increase. Consistent with past analyses, the study also found that male breast cancer patients were older when diagnosed and more likely to have advanced disease.
