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Africana Cancer Awareness, Prevention, Treatment and Survivorship
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Breast Cancer

"Socially marginalized people often do their best theorizing in their cultural productions. Testimonies, diaries, letter, and other texts reflect what African American Women think and how they feel. This is exemplified in Black women’s scholarship and in cancer survivor journals…As embodied “texts,” African American breast cancer survivors particularly reflect ideas about cancer that come from there lived experiences with the disease." Source: Elizabeth A. Williams, Black Women and Breast Cancer : A Cultural Theology (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019). p. 43.

Vanessa M. Wilson writes the following in "Twelve Months of cancer Care ... Making the Case for Integrative Medicine"
"When a person receives a diagnosis of breast cancer, she starts a complex theodical journey as she fights to restore health.[1] This journey begins with the question, “why me?”  and continues with more questions uttered during sleepless nights and waking periods of solitude.  Yet, there is no clear answer from the scientific community.  However, there is some research that establishes a nexus between childhood trauma and breast cancer. This nexus became a recurrent theme during my journey. It was able to emerge because my treatment was grounded in integrated medicine, connecting spirit, mind and body which has led to good health."

 [1] The American Cancer Society estimates for breast cancer in men in the United States for 2019 are: About 2,670 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed. About 500 men will die from breast cancer
breast cancer is about 100 times less common among white men than among white women.  It is about 70 times less common among black men than black women. Like black women, black men with breast cancer tend to have a worse prognosis (outlook). For men, the lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is about 1 in 833 . Source: Key Statistics for breast cancer in Men 
Boob Voyage
Having a desire to educate friends and family ,as well as demystify the experience of a mastectomy, Rev. Wilson and her friends and sons hosted a Boob Voyage Party.  The key note speaker was Brenda Esaw-Howard, a breast cancer Survivor, Activist and Educator. It was a rewarding experience that provided support, spiritual fortification and fun. Some of the photos are below. (Photographer: Aaron Wilson Watson)
Read More
 A Community Approach to Breast Cancer Prevention: Addressing Health Disparities (Video)
Breast Cancer Statistics | Did You Know? (Video)
Talk to Someone: Triple-Negative Breast Cancer an interactive conversation with the virtual triple-negative breast cancer survivor, Linda.
Understanding Slavery’s Legacy in Health and Medicine
What Are the Risk Factors for Breast Cancer?
What Is Breast Cancer?
Selected Bibliography
Catala, Amandine. "Democracy, Trust, and Epistemic Justice." The Monist 98, no. 4 (2015): 424.
 DeVita    Jr. , Vincent T. and Edward Chu. "A History of Cancer Chemotherapy." Cancer Research: A Journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 68, no. 21 (November 1, 2008 2008). 
Kaemmerle, Marilyn. Tactic. NBC vols. Edited by Lynwood King and Earl Lefferts, 1959.
Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. United States: Penguin Publishing Group, 2020.
Organization, World Health. Who Constitution. 
Oscar, M. Bizzell. "Talking the Fire out of a Burn." 2013, 
Raineau, Clementine. "Talking Fire out of Burns": Biomedical Transgressions and the Logic of Care. Vol. 32, 2013.
Townes, Emilie Maureen. Breaking the Fine Rain of Death : African American Health Issues and a Womanist Ethic of Care. Continuum, 1998.
Williams, Elizabeth A. Black Women and Breast Cancer : A Cultural Theology. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019.
Wilson, Vanessa M. An Autoethnographic Reflection on Africana Spirituality as Experienced in South Africa: Liberation after Liberation. 2017.
 
 
 
 
 

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  • Home
  • About
  • Mission and Vision
    • Africana Maternal Resources
    • Black Girls and School Resources
    • Prostate Cancer Resources Resources
    • Africana Cancer Awareness, Prevention, Treatment and SurvivorshipResources
    • Africana Trauma Awareness, Prevention and Treatment Resources
  • Black Men Talk
  • Local and Global Partners
  • Podcasts & In The News
  • Mama's Smile Foundation
  • Founder and President