breast cancer

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Rosie O'Donnell is afraid she may face a battle with breast cancer, which she revealed in a post called First in a While on her blog, on Monday. She describes doctors finding two lumps in her breasts last week, and how she is getting both biopsied. When speaking to Extra TV, O'Donnell revealed she worries that she could have the same disease that killed her mother. The out lesbian comedienne's mother lost her life in a battle with breast cancer at age 39, just four days before O'Donnell's 11th birthday.

This past summer SheWired contributor and our friend Tatum de Roeck was diagnosed with breast cancer. The co-host of Cherry Bomb and of her own interview style show on SheWired T-Time with Tatum began blogging about her experience shortly after her diagnosis. Via her writing, she shares the intimate details of taking breast cancer one step at a time in a blog that is incredibly emotional and moving but always infused with Tatum's lightning-quick wit and her ability to remain positive.

To honor our family, friends, loved ones, girlfriends, partners and in some cases, ourselves, we at SheWired are telling our stories of encounters with breast cancer, a disease that has affected nearly all of in some way. Today, our sports' guru Helen Wortham shares the lessons she's learned from brushes with breast cancer in her life.

This past summer SheWired contributor and our friend Tatum de Roeck was diagnosed with breast cancer. The co-host of Cherry Bomb and her own interview style show on SheWired T-Time with Tatum began blogging about her experience shortly after her diagnosis. Via her writing, she shares the intimate details of taking breast cancer one step at a time in a blog that is incredibly emotional and moving but always infused with Tatum's lightning-quick wit and her ability to remain positive.

New study links combined hormone therapy with increased risk of breast cancer death.

Jennifer Saunders has fought and won her battle with breast cancer. The 52-year-old Absolutely Fabulous star and creator says she’s been fighting the disease since discovering a lump in her breast nine months ago. She said she was given the all clear last month, and celebrated by showing off her new buzz cut.

This past summer SheWired contributor and our friend Tatum de Roeck was diagnosed with breast cancer. The co-host of Cherry Bomb and her own interview style show on SheWired T-Time With Tatum began blogging about her experience shortly after her diagnosis. Via her writing, she shares the intimate details of taking breast cancer one step at a time in a blog that is incredibly emotional and moving but always infused with Tatum's lightning-quick wit and her ability to remain positive.

This past summer SheWired contributor and our friend Tatum de Roeck was diagnosed with breast cancer. The co-host of Cherry Bomb and of her own interview style show on SheWired T-Time with Tatum began blogging about her experience shortly after her diagnosis. Via her writing, she shares the intimate details of taking breast cancer one step at a time in a blog that is incredibly emotional and moving but always infused with Tatum's lightning-quick wit and her ability to remain positive.

This past summer SheWired contributor and our friend Tatum de Roeck was diagnosed with breast cancer. The co-host of Cherry Bomb and her own interview style show on SheWired T-Time With Tatum began blogging about her experience shortly after her diagnosis. Via her writing, she shares the intimate details of taking breast cancer one step at a time in a blog that is incredibly emotional and moving but always infused with Tatum's lightning-quick wit and her ability to remain positive.

This past summer SheWired contributor and our friend Tatum de Roeck was diagnosed with breast cancer. The co-host of Cherry Bomb and her own interview style show on SheWired T-Time With Tatum began blogging about her experience shortly after her diagnosis. Via her writing, she shares the intimate details of taking breast cancer one step at a time in a blog that is incredibly emotional and moving but always infused with Tatum's lightning-quick wit and her ability to remain positive.

This past summer SheWired contributor and our friend Tatum de Roeck was diagnosed with breast cancer. The co-host of Cherry Bomb and her own interview style show on SheWired T-Time With Tatum began blogging about her experience shortly after her diagnosis. Via her writing, she shares the intimate details of taking breast cancer one step at a time in a blog that is incredibly emotional and moving but always infused with Tatum's lightning-quick wit and her ability to remain positive.

Whenever I speak at an event specifically for lesbians, this is the first question I am inevitably asked to answer: Is it true that lesbians are at greater risk of getting breast cancer? Renowned breast cancer expert Dr. Susan Love discusses risk factors for lesbians and for trans men and women.

Lesbian tennis pro Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The former world champion, 53, said that finding out the news was devastating. Navratilova said the cancer was detected during a mammogram in January. Navratilova told People magazine: "I cried. It knocked me on my ass, really. I feel so in control of my life and my body, and then this comes, and it's completely out of my hands. Watch the interview here. 

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Beloved author Judy Blume is recovering after undergoing a mastectomy for breast cancer, reports TheWrap. In a blog post titled "!@#$% Happens,”Blume, who is 74, wrote on Wednesday that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in June.

Lesbian comedian Tig Notaro started a set last night at the Largo with the quote, “Tragedy plus time equals comedy. But I don’t have the benefit of time. So I’m just going to tell you the tragedy and know that everything is going to be okay.”