Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
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But for me, it really didn't matter.
You know what she told me?
We have really good chemo for breast cancer.
I'm a women's health advocate.
Do you understand?
This is how I'm being treated in the healthcare system, right?
So she did it.
They gained her advice.
And a week later, I get a call that they found breast cancer in my tissue.
That's how I diagnosed my breast cancer.
So all this time they were digging in the left, my breast cancer was sitting on my right breast at six o'clock.
Why am I saying this?
I'm not saying this to scare people, but I'm saying this that as a woman's health advocate, as a gynecologist, as someone who's, I feel like I'm extremely competent in my field.
If I had to fight so hard for someone to take me seriously,
Do you think other women have a chance?
That's why they show up so late.
That's why their genetic test is not done.
That's why if you don't know your lifetime risk of... If I didn't know my lifetime risk of breast cancer, I would have never known to ask for these options.
That's why you have to empower women to be their own health advocate.
Go calculate your lifetime risk of breast cancer.