River of Hope

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month - with that said i want to share with you an article that i read a few months back that really reached out to me.

River of Hope

Rachele Kanigel

10/2007

It's hard to imagine a body part that stirs more pleasure and more angst for women than breasts. As 10-year-olds, we wonder if they'll ever emerge. As young women, we learn about their magnetic power to turn men's heads. As nursing mothers, we revel in their ability to give sustenance. And as sexual beings, we thrill when they're stroked and caressed.

For all the joy they bring, they also trigger their share of anxiety. We fret that they're too small or too big. We worry about blue veins and sagging flesh. And worst of all, we fear that an errant cell somewhere may be growing and dividing, forming a tumor that could change our lives forever.

The fear is real: About one in eight American women will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. This year an estimated 240,510 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and about 40,460 women will die of the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute.

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