Cancer is no respector of persons,age ,fitness etc.My aunt,my uncle ,my mom ,I have had it twice and now my 30 year old second cousin has cancer.Young women need to know that it can strike as early as teens to early twenties. It’s not just “an old woman disease”. So many types of breast cancer.I was amazed to find that at my job ,the ladies thought there was only one kind of breast cancer! We all pray for a cure and SOON! But until then I wish more companies would pull the mammogram van up in their companies parking lots and offer free mammograms to their employees.I pray for a swift recovery for her and that she will be vigliant in the years to come.Breast cancer has an insidious way of returning.God bless her..
As to mamograms, I think if they designed one that didn’t make you feel like you were being run over by a truck more women would get them. I admit, I always put it off, because it’s so darned uncomfortable. I get them done, but not exactly every year. They need a better method.
susie
My daughter contracted childhood melanoma at 12 - no risk factors, no family history, it simply happened.