14/10/2022
Did you know that the National Breast Cancer Foundation reports that a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every two minutes?
Five Facts About Breast Cancer
Breast cancer doesn’t discriminate. Although breast cancer is more prevalent among American white women, African-American women tend to die from the disease more often.
Breast cancer can baffle scientists. Scientists don’t really understand why the left breast seems to develop cancer more often than the right breast.
Breast cancer surgery was a trailblazer. The very first operation to use anesthesia to deaden pain was a breast cancer surgery.
Men get it too. Overall, only one percent of American males are diagnosed with breast cancer, but African-American men just like women in their community, are more prone to die from the disease.
Breast cancer – the nuns’ disease. At one time, cancer was called “the nuns’ disease” because it seemed to afflict more nuns than women in the general population.
