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Minority women have shorter life expectancies and are less likely to receive adequate prenatal care than white women. Black women, in particular, have the highest rates of death from cerebrovascular disease, and while breast cancer death rates have declined among white women, they have increased for black women, center officials said...
...Well, the AIDS thing is something that I did for about 6 or 7 years, and now I'm not doing any more. But now I live back in New York, and my mother's breast cancer foundation is there, so I've kind of, again, logistically and geographically moved my philanthropic endeavors to that cause. Also, for the fact that now I'm back in New York [sic], my mother said, "I'll kick your ass if you don't do what I tell you." I just had a huge celebrity golf tournament for my mom--we raised...
Just how far-reaching is distressingly apparent in the ensuing conversation. Women with this gene mutation have an 85% lifetime risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. Kristen faces as much as a 60% chance of cancer in her other breast. She must decide whether to have her breasts removed, or to pursue various other pre-emptive treatments. But that is just the beginning. Once a patient knows about her genetic predisposition to cancer, she must decide whether or not she is going to lie on the myriad forms and applications that ask her to divulge...
Iglehart reminds her gently that "the good news is that the survival rate with breast cancer exceeds 85%." Still, Kristen must decide: have both breasts removed; take the drug Tamoxifen, whose possible side effects include blood clots and endometrial cancer. Or, more frightening still: do nothing...
...since she realized that managed care is tearing her away from her newborn daughter Morganne. The baby has jaundice and needs to stay under white fluorescent lights for another day. But Valerie's managed-care plan, like most, wants her out after two days, vastly complicating her plans to breast-feed her baby. Thompson went to the nurses' station and begged for one more day. The nurses told her she could call her insurer, but they didn't hold out much hope. "They said, 'No way. That's not going to happen,'" Thompson recalls...