Breast Cancer

 Imagine it being your first day as a senior in high school. You wake up that morning extra early anxious and excited to get back to see your friends you’ve been away from the entire summer break. It’s your last year of high school and your life couldn’t be more perfect. The end of the school day arrives and you’re all excited to run home to tell your folks about what a wonderful day you had. You make it home, but today you aren’t greeted by the scent of your mom cooking dinner or the sound of your dad watching sports on tv. On this day you are greeted with the stench of silence and your parents have this very dull solemn look on their faces. They sit you down at the table to tell you some news. Your mom has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I know right, world crushing news. How could I know? I know because a very similar scenario happened to me. My mom was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. She had to quit her job to receive her treatment. Now, she needed to know how could cancer treatment be made more affordable? Some ways to help decrease breast cancer treatment cost are by improving physician-patient communication, physician education, and cancer prevention methods.