Annual Women's Health Section - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor

Ebony, Dec, 2002

Once again your magazine has done a magnificent job of covering issues that inspire, inform and educate. The "Annual Women's Health Section" (Oct. 2002) was phenomenal. I am very glad to see your magazine continue to "bring home" the topic of being healthy and fit. I am in my 30s and these articles remind me of the steps I need to take so that I can live a long, healthy life. I passed these articles on to my mother, sister, family and friends because I want them to be physically healthy as well.

Keep up the excellent work! I look forward to future issues.

LORRAINE LAWRENCE
Rochester, N.Y.

Your article, "Beating Breast Cancer," in the annual women's health section, touched so close to home. My 83-year-old mother is a breast cancer survivor. (Forty years ago, her mother died of breast cancer.)

My mother's cancer was detected when she was involved in an automobile accident. Her chest hit the steering wheel. While being examined by her doctor, she complained of pain in her breast. He felt a lump in her breast and advised her to have a mammogram. It was cancer, but we caught it in time.

I agree with Mrs. Gerri Blair's statement that our men need to get involved.

DEBORAH L. (YOUNG) LOVE
Dallas, Texas

Thank you for your special section on breast cancer. I'm a three-year survivor. I'd like you to let women know that cancer is not a death sentence. If you find it early, it can be treated.

Please keep Black women aware of this disease. Let them know that they are not alone.

DEBORAH COLE
Farmerville, La.