she has gone through a 13 hour double mastectomy for preventative reasons. and now linsey davis reports she is telling the world about the procedure. she was there for her son when he announced his battle with ms. he s great. he s doing really, really good. and i want to thank everyone for all of their good will. but now it s sharon osborne s turn to lean on her family, revealing to hello magazine after discovering she had the gene for breast cancer, she made a life-changing decision. quote, as soon as i found out i had the breast cancer gene, i thought the odds are not in my favor. i have had cancer before and i didn t want to live under that cloud. i decided to just take everything off and had a double mastectomy.
costs for impaired driving. excessive drinking was defined as binge or heavy drinking or any drinking by pregnant or underaged youth. alcoholism is not an easy thing to deal with, either by yourself or alongside someone you love. this brings me to another story i want to tell you about, a home for alcoholics that lets them drink and is funded by you, by me, the taxpayers. no matter what you think, it s an interesting concept for sure, and these types of places are starting to pop up more and more frequently around the country. chris welsh spent the better part of a month working on the story at one of these so-called wet houses. he joins me now from minneapolis to talk about it. chris, thanks again for being back on the show. let me ask you to start how did you get interested in this? well this was a story that sort of popped up on a local newspaper a while back. you know, we saw it and thought this could really make an interesting story to really dig deeper into. so we t
sanjay gupta m.d. starts right now. happy halloween, everybody. welcome to the program. i m dr. sanjay gupta. the candy of our childhood. why do we still crave it every year at halloween? have you been dipping in already? we also have serious business to get to you ve seen the pink ribbons all over this month, we want to clear up misconceptions about breast cancer. first a number, this one. $1.90. that s the cost per drink of excessive drinking in the country. it adds up to about $223.5 billion burden to the u.s. government and individuals. about $746 per person. just about three quarters of those costs of excessive drinking were due to lost workplace productivity. 11% of it from health care expenses. 9% from law enforcement and other criminal justice costs. 6% for motor vehicle or crash costs for impaired driving. excessive drinking was defined as binge or heavy drinking or any drinking by pregnant or underaged youth. alcoholism is not an easy thing to deal with, either by
rossport, the are the acle your breasts are not a ticking time bomb is in glamour magazine and facing the breast cancer gene and making life s changing decisions. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. a great title of an article it says your breasts are not a ticking time bomb and frankly so many of us think they are. and we hear the statistics and think at some point we are going to get breast cancer. for high risk women they think they re ticking time bombs, for the average woman, the truth is they aren t. let s go through the myths and think it will help women this morning. number one, breast cancer is striking more women at a younger age. it seems like we hear more and more women in the 20 s and 30 s wrestling with this. yes, i think that young women, you know, people think that young women are diagnosed because there s so much more awareness these days, however that s not the case surprisingly. the rate of breast cancer among young women has remained the s
horrible death from ovarian cancer. shortly after that i watched my sister battle ovarian cancer and she also has the gene and after she was tested and went through eight rounds of chemotherapy i knew that i had to get tested for the gene as well and mine did come back positive. i feel so powerful that i have and so thankful that i have this knowledge. the gene for some folks who are just hearing this for the first time this is the gene of o ovarian cancer. you tested positive. what did you do with that information? it s the ovarian cancer and breast cancer gene. what i did with that information is i started doing a lot of research meeting with several doctors and what they told me and what they recommended was that i went ahead and did a hysterectomy and a double mastectomy and to be honest with