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Albany, NY – The first National Breast Cancer Awareness Month was really just a week in October of 1985. It was the beginning of an effort to fight a disease that, while not being ignored, was not being talked about openly in the US. When former first lady Betty Ford, a breast cancer survivor herself, made a nationally televised appeal to women to get screened...it inspired a flood of other high profile Americans to come forward with their stories of surviving the disease. Today, we wanted to talk about what's new in the world of breast cancer treatment and research. Here to talk about this is Dr. Janet Gargiulo, a medical oncologist at New York Oncology Hematology in Latham, New York. She and Dr. Nina Sax started by talking about who is most at risk for breast cancer.