Colombian American journalist Laura Hernández was 39 in January 2022 when she felt a small lump under her left armpit. Worried, she quickly went to her gynecologist. “She was much more relaxed than me. She told me, 'It’s nothing, but just in case, we’re going to send you a mammogram,'' Hernández said. The mammogram didn't yield a definitive result because of the density of her breast tissue, but she was marked as suspicious.
A subsequent biopsy confirmed Hernández' bad feeling — she had breast cancer. 'This is happening to all of us, it is happening to us when we're very young, and it's happening to Latinas,' said Hernández, who lives in New York City with her husband and son. She underwent a lumpectomy and said her cancer was now in remission. Though Hernández had a good outcome, each year about 42,000 women in the U.S. die from breast cancer. Though breast cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in U.S. women after lung cancer, it's the leading cause of death for Black and Latina wome
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