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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.

Do a cluster of risk factors explain the high number of cancer deaths?

Elizabeth Edwards died after a long battle with breast cancer at age 61 Tuesday. She was at her home surrounded by her family. Monday Edwards, who was married to former Presidential candidate John Edwards, announced she was stopping cancer treatment upon learning her cancer had spread to her liver and doctors told her she had only a few months to live.

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.

New screening could detect disease before tumors form.

Tennis icon Martina Navratilova says she completed radiation treatment for breast cancer last week. Navratilova was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, in February. DCIS is the most common form of noninvasive breast cancer. She said the cancer it was first detected in January after a mammogram. After a biopsy and a lumpectomy, she underwent six weeks of radiation in Paris while still continuing commentary duties for the Tennis Channel.

A new study found a higher incidence of lesbians who had not undergone a pap smear in the past year, compared to the overall female population.

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.

The founder of the National LGBT Cancer Network notes a new study that found LGBT breast cancer survivors are put off by the dominance of "cancer-pink" in advocacy and doctor's offices.

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.

Tig Notaro was ready to spill about her difficult year for a 30 minute set at the Largo Theater in Los Angeles in August. The set was intended for an episode of This American Life, after host Ira Glass was so impressed with her initial performance on the show back in May.

Anyone who’s ever attended an LGBT event in Los Angeles or has likely met and been impacted by filmmaker, activist, writer, blogger (who created and curated The Smoking Cocktail), photographer and social butterfly JD Disalvatore, who always stands out with her signature silver hair and glasses. JD, the out lesbian producer of films in the LGBT canon including Elena Undone, A Marine Story, Shelter and Eating Out 2, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

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.