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With more Electoral College votes than any other swing state, Pennsylvania is largely seen as the make or break battleground.
Getting those last couple yards in the.
Red zone in Pennsylvania is really, really tough.
The presidential candidates have their eyes on it, and so do we all.
This week on the Consider this podcast from npr.
Come along.
You're listening to Life Kit from npr.
Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
In November of last year, I went to my doctor for an annual checkup, and she felt a lump in my breast.
I hadn't felt it myself.
After multiple mammograms, ultrasounds and biopsies, I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.
Yeah, it was a shock.
The latest statistics tell us that one in eight women will get breast cancer over a lifetime.
Now I'm in my mid-30s.
I didn't have a strong family history of breast cancer, don't have a genetic mutation that would raise my risk.
I never expected this would happen to me at this age.
But in the past decade, there's been an increase in breast cancer diagnosis rates for all women, but even more so for those under 50.
Dr.
Jason Muwabi is a medical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
He focuses specifically on breast cancer, and he says more than half of his patients are under 50.