Crystal King is not only the manager of multicultural marketing for Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, she’s an 8-year breast cancer survivor. She called in to the TJMS this morning to discuss how Black women in particular can perform breast exams and receive clinical breast exams. As one who was diagnosed with breast cancer in her mid-twenties, King is an advocate for exams at an early age.
While breast cancer is the most common cancer among African American women (and the second leading cancer in cause of death after lung cancer), men can be diagnosed with breast cancer, too.
Hear what Crystal King said about all of that and more here
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