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 covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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