October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 

Experts say one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime — that’s one person every 12 minutes in the U.S.

The two greatest risk factors of breast cancer are being female and getting older, and in 2021, it was estimated that 43,600 women and 530 men in the U.S. died from breast cancer. 

Also, Black women in the U.S. are about 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. 

How can we reverse those numbers and trends?

GUESTS:

• State Rep. Linda Chaney [R], District 69, St. Petersburg
• Alisa Savoretti, Founder / CEO, My Hope Chest
• Lyndsay Rhodes, Associate Professor of Biology, Florida Gulf Coast University