The Save 1 Challenge: Enable 100, Prevent 8, Save 1
I have some bad news and some good news. I also have a favor to ask. #Save1Challenge Let's start with the bad news. If you are a woman...
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Who will you save?
In 2022 researchers demonstrated how to cut breast cancer risk in half.
But awareness is down 50% from 2012.
The Save 1 Challenge is about knowledge, not donations.
1 in 8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer
Each of the following increases individual risk:
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Being overweight
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Not getting enough physical activity
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Drinking any amount of alcohol
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Going through puberty before age 12
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Having your 1st child after the age 30
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Having no or fewer children
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Being taller
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Going through menopause after age 50
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Being older
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Having dense breast tissue
The risks add up.
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What if breast cancer runs in my family?
Having one 1st degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) who was diagnosed with breast cancer increases your risk by 2x.
Having two increases your risk by 3x.
What about breast cancer survivors and women living with breast cancer today?
The same actions that help prevent breast cancer can help prevent recurrence. Researchers have shown they can also reduce the side effects of treatment and delay death from breast cancer.
The benefits add up.
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Who am I? I'm one of the 290,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer in the US each year. One of the particularly unlucky ones to be younger than 40 when it happened. Not even old enough to get a mammogram. I wasn't expecting it. There's no family history of breast cancer. I don't have a genetic predisposition for it.
Nope. As my doctor put it, I just had "shit bad luck"
What is this? This is my story. It is also all the anti-inflammatory diet and life-hacks I learned along the way. It's a guide of sorts, the tips and tricks I've figured out to live a life that reduces cancer risk while also leaving room for life.
Why so funny? Shouldn't I be taking cancer more seriously? Isn't it inappropriate to be funny? Well, this is me. This is the raw internal monologue of a cancer patient. Also, I learned along the way that cancer is a traumatic experience. I also learned that humor and positivity is an excellent way to deal with trauma. If this brings joy to even a single woman while she's going through her own experience, than it's worth it. Or to a man, because yes, men can get breast cancer too.
STAY IN THE KNOW
"I love all the health facts about how to decrease your risk of cancer. I've had more and more friends diagnosed with various forms of cancer over the past few years. It does feel like rates are going up with all cancer and I'm so interested in why and what we can do to stop it!"
Andrea, VA
The Journey Starts Here
To my two beautiful and smart daughters - You are my pride and joy, I love you more than the sun and the moon and the stars and all the grains of sand. This site is for you. It is my story, all the lessons I learned along the way.
To everyone else. Hello. I don’t know who you are and you don’t know who I am, but that’s cool. I had thought about doing this as a box of letters to my two young daughters. However, they are easily 20 years away from needing this perspective. Instead, I‘m putting this out there for anyone who needs it because I’ve had a few women I greatly admire ask me to. They said it could help others.
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