Tag: Breast Cancer

  • The Color of Cancer: Time for a Change

    In New York City, where I live, life-expectancy is 3 years shorter for Black people than the average and cancer is the leading cause of premature death – according to the City’s Vital Statistics records in their most recent summary. Too many Black lives are cut short by cancer, documented by me and many others over the years in…

  • My Mother, My Daughters, and Breast Cancer

    My Mother, My Daughters, and Breast Cancer

    Genes cause cancer. But genes do not necessarily cause death from cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a time of both hope and remembrance for me. Hope for a better future, and remembrance for my Mother. She died suddenly of metastatic breast cancer at about the time I was going to deliver my second baby daughter.…