Best Foods for Breast Health

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

“It has been 11 years since you defeated the big bad C?”

“Yes,” smiled Annie as she leaned into the podcast microphone. “I was diagnosed with an aggressive tumor in my right breast only two months after a mammogram, indicated I had no symptoms. So, it was a shock to learn the tumor which had to be present even then was undetected.”

The interviewer leaned back in her chair, absorbing what she just learned. “That is pretty surprising, and it sounds like your tumor was missed?”

“Not sure what happened,” said Annie. “What I can tell you, once it was detected, there was little time spent on a possible missed diagnosis and more time spent on resolution; one that would save my life,”

Cassie glanced at her notes and then set them aside, “it would be easy to spend this time talking about what happened to you, but I think a better use of our time would be to learn what to do to avoid breast cancer.”

Annie nodded in agreement, breast cancer is the most common cancer, affecting 1 in 8 US women, and for US men, the rate is less than 1%. Researchers say a breast cancer diagnosis is due to a complex set of circumstances, including inheriting genes with genetic mutations for BRCA1 and BRCA2 or other types of DNA damage. Those areas we still…