Local breast cancer survivors honored at Pink October ceremony
“So for everybody out here listening, especially the women out here — those who have the pronouns she and her — remember that you cannot pour from an empty cup,” Shelby County Health Department Director and cancer survivor Dr. Michelle Taylor said at a Pink October Breast Cancer Observance on Thursday, Oct. 24. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Health Department Director Dr. Michelle Taylor said risk increases with age and that women, who are more often caregivers, should make their own health a priority.
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Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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