October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
As you probably already know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Kudos to Gloria at Cancer Commentary who encourages women to Change the Statistic by getting annual mammograms. Grace at Kids Health Notes offers some advice on how to talk to your kids about cancer. Did you know that about one in four new breast cancer cases occurs in women of childbearing age? I’m here to talk about the links between breast cancer and fertility.
The American Cancer Society states:
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.
About 178,480 women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2007. About 40,460 women will die from the disease this year. Right now there are about two and a half million breast cancer survivors in the United States.
And FYI, not only women are diagnosed with breast cancer. My best friend’s dad is a proud breast cancer survivor, in remission for over 3 years.
Two and a half million survivors! I can’t decide if that makes me happy or sad. Glad there are so many successful remissions; So very sad so many treatments had to be started in the first place.
Fertile Hope – an amazing resource for cancer survivors – created this booklet entitled, “Breast Cancer and Fertility that I recommend. Breastcancer.org has a nice long list of studies related to this topic that you can also explore.
Of course, I have to take this opportunity to shout out to a local nonprofit with a great name: not only is Leigh a MySpace friend, she is a fellow survivor and founder of Feel Your Boobies, a charity focused on breast cancer awareness. C’mon. You know you want a tank top with their logo!
Tags: , awareness, breast-cancer, chemotherapy, feel your boobies, Fertile Hope, fertility, infertility, mammograms, radiation, survivor
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