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.”
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These 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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