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Share these short, powerful breast cancer quotes to encourage and provide hope for friends and family affected by the disease.
Breast cancer quotes inspire people in the throws of treatment, offer encouragement to family members, and help those impacted by any level of diagnosis (from stage 0—DCIS—to metastatic).
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Hamer died of complications from hypertension and breast cancer on March 14, 1977, aged 59, at Taborian Hospital, Mound Bayou, Mississippi. [63] She was buried in her hometown of Ruleville, Mississippi. Her tombstone is engraved with one of her famous quotes, "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." [64]
Diagnosis dates are listed where the information is known. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women after skin cancer. According to the United States National Cancer Institute, the rate of new cases of female breast cancer was 129.1 per 100,000 women per year. The death rate was 19.9 per 100,000 women per year.
Rayner was found to have breast cancer in 2002 at the age of 71. She became a breast cancer activist to promote the work of the charity Cancer Research UK . [ 16 ] She also suffered from Graves' disease [ 3 ] and became a patron of the British Thyroid Foundation in 1994.
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Benson has publicly talked about surviving breast cancer after undergoing a total of 28 hours of surgery within three days. [ 27 ] On 19 March 2016, at Labadi Beach Hotel's Omanye Hall in Accra , she held a women's gathering centred on her fight against breast cancer with the aim of encouraging and strengthening women amidst music and words of ...