The Breast Cancer Nobody Is Talking About

By Mary A. Fischer
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the October 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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One virulent, fast-acting type of breast cancer attacks more than twice as many young black women as all other women.

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