Medical Minute: How To Know Your Risk For Breast Cancer

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. More than 43,000 women in the U.S. are expected to die from breast cancer this year.

Monday, October 4th 2021, 5:15 pm

By: Drake Johnson

TULSA, Oklahoma -

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

More than 43,000 women in the U.S. are expected to die from breast cancer this year.

Many of those diagnoses will be hard-to-treat cancers and late-stage cancer.

In today's Medical Minute, we have more on your breast cancer risk.

Drake Johnson

Drake Johnson is a Digital Content Producer at Griffin Media. He joined the team in July 2021 after graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in journalism. Drake is a longtime Oklahoman, growing up in Owasso and graduating from OHS in 2016. When not covering the news, he enjoys watching the Sooners and OKC Thunder, plus spending time with family and friends in the state and traveling across the country.