Breast cancer symptoms can be different in individual patients and some patients may not have any symptoms at all.
Some situations in medicine are hard to erase from your memory. It is as if the encounter occurred yesterday. Those instances for me are generally those patients I have diagnosed with cancer or lost to cancer, particularly breast cancer. I can still see their faces and remember our conversations. These types of memories are difficult to release from your mind and heart.
Therefore, I honor them by doing my best to educate others about breast cancer. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women in the US. Each year, about 42,000 women and 500 men die of breast cancer. However, the death rate of black women is higher than that of white women.
Breast cancer symptoms can be different in individual patients and some patients may not have any symptoms at all.