Sheryl Crow Opens Breast Cancer Center

Sheryl Crow, the talented singer who’s had a great career in the entertainment industry pretty much since I started college, has notoriously battled, and won, the breast cancer battle.  She is one of the higher profile celebrities who has battled this dreadful disease, and thankfully, she has emerged from it stronger and healthier than before.

Sheryl has just adopted two young boys also, so she has a lot to live for these days!  The generous donation will house a center where women can get digital imaging done to help better and faster diagnose breast cancer.  This helps women catch it earlier, and may increase their chances of surviving the disease should they have it.

Sheryl hopes that this will encourage women who are forty and older to get their routine screenings every year. This can dramatically improve chances for successful treatment, and she seems to credit her routine exam for detecting her own breast cancer earlier on than it would have normally been detected.

This is great when women (and men) donate their time, energy and plentiful financial resources to help increase awareness or make things more accessible and realistic to the rest of us.  Sheryl is really using her celebrity to help women everywhere afford the right care for their breasts, and to keep them healthier longer.

Sheryl actually partnered with the Pink Lotus cancer center which helped her beat her breast cancer in opening the new digital imaging center.  Sheryl beat her cancer by radiation therapy and surgery (probably a lumpectomy, not sure), but different treatments work for different people.

It also depends heavily on what stage your cancer is at.  Some people may be able to have minimally invasive surgery to remove cancerous tissue, and radiation, while some may not need both. It really depends. Of course, it makes all the difference in the world to have a good oncologist.

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