Yahoo Lifestyle breast cancer awareness month
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'Know your risk': Survivors, experts on Black women's challenges in navigating breast cancer
Black women with breast cancer are about 40% more likely to die than white women with the disease.
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Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn reflects on being diagnosed with breast cancer at the height of her career: 'You are more powerful with every challenge you face'
Chef Dominique Crenn was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019, just months after her restaurant received its third Michelin star.
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Breast cancer and careers: How 7 survivors tackled both
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and MAKERS is sharing seven powerful stories of survival.
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Why this photographer keeps turning her lens on post-mastectomy breast cancer survivors and thrivers
Through the women she photographs, Charise Isis hopes to add context, through an empathic and realistic lens, to misinformed ideas people may have about mastectomies.
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What to say — and not say — when a friend tells you, 'I have breast cancer'
Try to think of these nuggets of wisdom as suggestions — not as edicts or threats designed to freak you into silence. Most people just want to know that you’re there, and that you care.
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The newest 'Simpsons' character is a hypnotherapist breast cancer survivor with 'uniboob.' Here's her inspiring backstory.
The Oct. 24 episode introduces character Dr. Wendy Sage, a hypnotherapist who has had a unilateral mastectomy, leaving her with what fellow survivors endearingly refer to as “uniboob.”
Yahoo LifeThese breast cancer survivors are happier than ever post-mastectomy: 'I don't miss them'
Plenty of women don't miss their breasts after surgery — despite the warnings so often coming from breast surgeons and society at large: that a life without breasts is one of disfigurement, bereft of one's womanhood.
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Kelly Hu's role as a breast cancer patient in new Lifetime movie was all too familiar: 'I have a lot of experience, unfortunately'
Hu is best known for playing tough characters in "X2: X-Men United" and "Arrow." This role is much different.
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Elizabeth Hurley on having fun with her bikini photos: 'I'm not hiding just because I'm over 50'
The actress opens up about marking 26 years with the Breast Cancer Campaign and why nature is "the best therapy for me."
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Olivia Newton-John, longtime cancer 'thriver,' on losing friend Kelly Preston and finding comfort in cannabis
The Australian icon just announced the launch of her new Olivia Newton-John Foundation, in the midst of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with a mission to “fund the discovery of kinder therapies."
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'Am I going to be here in 2 years?': 34-year-old living with stage IV breast cancer grapples with treatment amid pandemic
Though an estimated 155,000 people are currently living with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) in the U.S., 61 percent of people admit to knowing very little about the disease. Tori Geib wants to change that.
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Breast cancer survivors make strides in showing the world that ‘going flat’ after mastectomy is 'both beautiful and valid'
Breast cancer survivors have been working hard to create a movement that advocates for going flat, post-mastectomy, as a viable, embraceable option.
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How the pandemic has changed breast cancer treatment for women: 'I went to everything alone'
Going through often scary, confusing treatments and follow-up appointments without a spouse or relative or friend to lean on has been one of the biggest, most difficult ways that women navigating breast cancer treatment over the past six months have felt the COVID influence.
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Ananda Lewis reveals stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis: 'I need you to get your mammograms'
Lewis revealed Thursday on Instagram that she’s been dealing with the disease in private for almost two years.
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TV journalist diagnosed with breast cancer after live-streaming mammogram
Ali Meyer agreed to live-stream her first mammogram last year but was shocked to receive a breast cancer diagnosis.
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Angelina Jolie: Medical Advances in Women's Health Are Important. But They're Only Part of the Picture
Despite all of medicine's advances in cancer treatment, there's still a long way to go, writes Angelina Jolie.
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Jennifer Garner Shares a Video of Her Mammogram Appointment for Breast Cancer Awareness
Jennifer Garner Takes Followers Along for Her Mammogram
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The breast cancer nobody wants to talk about: 'If I don't find something that works, I will die'
Many of the estimated 155,000 women (and men) living with metastatic breast cancer in the U.S. can feel erased from the larger breast cancer narrative, which is largely focused on survival.
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Beyoncé's father Mathew Knowles has breast cancer: Here's what you need to know about the disease in men
Mathew Knowles, father of Beyoncé, recently announced that he’s being treated for breast cancer. Here’s what you need to know about male breast cancer.
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Why some breast cancer survivors are getting their implants removed
Some breast cancer patients describe a bullying-like pressure from their surgeons to reconstruct after having a mastectomy.
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Single mom with rare, aggressive breast cancer to other women: Don't wait to get checked
I was in the shower one night back in January, and I felt a lump in my breast. I didn’t think it was breast cancer.
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How a breast cancer diagnosis led Giuliana Rancic to launch a clean, anti-aging skin care line
Seeking to create a botanical-based anti-aging skin care line, Giuliana Rancic joined forces with Hain Celestial to launch Fountain of Truth this month.
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'Next month, I'm getting a double mastectomy. I'm only 24.'
"I’ve been preparing for it since I was 18," says Kaylee Denmead about her preventive double mastectomy. "That’s when doctors told me I had ... an altered gene that means there is a 72 percent chance that I’ll get breast cancer by the time I turn 80."
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15 Fashionable ‘Breast Cancer Awareness’ Items
Today we welcome October, and with that comes the start of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From Ralph Lauren’s Pink Pony Foundation to Stella McCartney’s Pink Lingerie, bringing awareness to this disease has been an ongoing mission for many brands and designers. So this month, join them — think pink with these 15 products that donate a percentage of proceeds to help fight breast cancer. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest for nonstop inspiration delivered fresh to your feed, every day