You’ve heard the statistic so often that it’s receded to the background: about 1-in-8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
What that statistic hides or minimizes: breast cancer is the leading cancer that women face. However, when you break breast cancer into its two distinct forms – ductal and lobular – ductal remains number one. But lobular is number six. Continue reading “Lobular breast cancer: the sixth most common cancer affecting women”