October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast Cancer affects hundreds of thousands of women in the U.S. every year. In 2006, 191,410 women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,820 of them died from this disease. Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.
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Dr. Fobi is a bariatric surgeon for stars in Hollywood and he happens to be from Cameroon. The surgeon performs weight-loss surgeries for people that are overweight. He has been performing the surgery since the 1970s. He has performed the surgery on American Idol’s Randy Jackson and comedian Rosanne Barr. Dr. Fobi’s procedure requires cutting a patient’s stomach to the size of just a golf ball.
