Facing Breast Cancer: Insights From Experts and a Doctor’s Inspiring Survival Journey

In recent years, breast cancer rates have increased among younger women. Read about what several doctors have to say about the trends and what patients face.
Facing Breast Cancer: Insights From Experts and a Doctor’s Inspiring Survival Journey
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Breast cancer is a major threat to women’s health around the world, and these days, women are developing it at increasingly younger ages. On NTD’s “Health 1+1” program, Dr. Wei Lihong, an oncologist at North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and Dr. Eric P. Winer, director of the Yale Cancer Center at Yale University School of Medicine, discussed the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer from different perspectives.
Dr. Cheng Yu-shu, an attending physician at the breast surgery department of the China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan and a breast cancer survivor, shared personal experiences of how breast cancer patients reassess their lives during treatment.

A Doctor’s Personal Experience With Cancer

Cheng said that one Sunday in June 2019, she discovered a lump in her breast.