Early detection is our only protection.
Like most women, Ms. Chapman had no reason to think that she was likely to develop breast cancer. There was no family history of the disease. In fact, she never even went to see a doctor after coming here from Trinidad in 1970. According to Dr. Marlene Price, an expert on breast cancer who teaches at SUNY Downstate, Eliza's experience with breast cancer is typical of many women. According to Dr. Richard Wait, chairman of surgery at SUNY Downstate and a breast surgeon at its University Hospital of Brooklyn, the correlation between age and risk for breast cancer may depend, in part, on race.