In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, cable network TV One will premiere 'Breast Cancer Examined: An African American Perspective' on early detection and treatment on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. ET.
Richard Roundtree, journalist and author René Syler, Gabrielle Union, and artist Synthia Saint James are all featured. Breast cancer survivors and actresses Diahann Carroll and Alaina Reed Hall give emotional accounts of their personal experiences.
Produced with Susan G. Komen for the Cure® (www.komen.org) and its African American breast cancer initiative, Circle of Promise, the documentary travels from Washington, D.C., to Dallas to Los Angeles, probing into the areas of prevention, detection, treatment and empowerment for survivors, their families and friends.
Individual patients invite viewers inside their world as they experience different phases of the process, including treatment and aftercare/survival. Through these stages, viewers will learn about the types of breast cancer, the numerous kinds of treatments, and different approaches to surviving, living and thriving.
Despite the decline of breast cancer in the general population, it remains the most common and second leading cause of cancer fatalities among African American women. Breast cancer also affects a small percentage of men, with African American men's survival rates being lower than the general population.
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By: Bright Future on 10/08/2009 5:53PM
My grandmother passed away from breast cancer which probably could have been been prevented with early detection. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BV for Breast Cancer Awareness in the AA community. I have just turned 35 years and my GYN doctor advised me to get my mammogram this year due to the high % for BW.
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By: Rocko Vana on 10/10/2009 5:48AM
I just found this site and you really have to be F-in me Black Voices Give me a God Dam break talk about more self segregation. At what point do you think white folks are going to say enoughs enough. You don't see any WET network or WV get over yourselfs already. Learn to work as one don't keep on playin this Black folk shit it's going to back fire one day. Work as one live as one and many things will change in favor of all.......
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By: Joseph on 10/10/2009 10:16AM
I didn't know Gabrielle Union and Richard Roundtree were breast cancer survivors! I did know the number of men that contract the malady is greater than publicized. Not only in the African American male population, it's just as prominent in the Caucasian sector. I'm puzzled as to why African American females are the greater number. Is it diet, lifestyle, body chemistry does anybody in the forum know? My sister was a survivor, cigarettes caused her demise.
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By: alicia on 10/10/2009 2:17PM
Wonderful...I have to work that night but I will DVR it.
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