Breast cancer used to be a near fatal diagnosis. Check out my Huffington Post article for Pearle’s story: 31 years with metastatic breast cancer, and she is still going strong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/happy-80th-birthday-pearl_b_5885974.html . October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so make sure your (or your spouse’s) mammography screening is up to date.