Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Rightly or wrongly, breast cancer is the disease that women of dread most. A woman’s chances of developing heart disease are actually much higher. Other forms of cancer are equally devastating and harder to cure. Nonetheless, somehow its still breast cancer that grips our attention. Maybe its because almost everyone knows someone who’s had it. Or because it strikes many women in the prime of their lives. Whatever the reason, the …

…cancer treatment takes a few weeks. The psychological scars take much longer. Many women find that it helps to meet with other cancer survivors who truly understand the fear and anger that can follow a diagnosis of breast cancer. They cope by learning to live in the present and not dwell on the unknown. Like all women, they can take comfort in the steadily growing number of women who have fought the disease and survived.