October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (in the USA)

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (in the USA). According to the American Cancer Society, about 1 in 8 (12%) women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in her lifetime. Learn about the disease and what you can do to reduce your risk

 Read more about this at: http://mayocl.in/1vsARw0
(courtesy of Mayo Clinic)

I share this as my wife gets ready to undergo surgery in the coming weeks, including an oophorectomy and a double/bilateral mastectomy, having been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in March, 2013 and in August this year being told she has the BRCA1 gene mutation.