By AFRO Staff and Interns According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in America, excluding skin cancer. It accounts for about 30 percent (or 1 in 3) of all new female cancers each year. This year alone, ACS predicted “about 316,950 new cases of invasive breast […]
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Hope, healing and the will to live: Breast cancer survivors tell their stories
By Brandon Henry AFRO Intern For Lisa Johnson, Valerie Fraling and Tiffany Ann Wingate, breast cancer awareness isn’t just a phrase made up of buzzwords– it’s a reminder of their battles with breast cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that “Black people have a lower overall 5-year cancer survival rate than […]