Inside Health Weekly

Fall is here, costumes are coming, but the real boo? Ignoring your boobs!

This October, don’t ghost your health. It’s time to know the signs, check the risks, and take charge.

So on Wednesdays, every day, and all month long, wearing pink isn’t just “fetch,” it’s raising awareness for one of the biggest cancers out there.

1. Mean Girls, Meet Mammograms:

Breast Cancer and Mean Girls both prove that ignoring the drama only makes it worse. Let’s turn the movie’s iconic lines into health tips and power moves:

“I can’t help it that I’m popular.”
→ Neither can breast cancer. Breast cancer was the most common cancer in women in 157 countries out of 185 in 2022

“She doesn’t even go here!”
→ Cancer doesn’t discriminate… it can “go here” no matter your age, gender, or background.

“That’s why her hair is so big… It’s full of secrets.”
→ That’s why early detection is so powerful. Hidden changes shouldn’t stay secret for long.

“Is butter a carb?”
→ No, butter is a fat. But more importantly, is your next screening on the calendar?

“That is so fetch!”
→ You want to know what’s actually fetch? Breaking the statistics. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for Hispanic women.

2. Cancer, Explained.

Cancer sucks. How does it start and spread?

It all starts with our DNA. Typically, happy, healthy DNA instructs our bodies’ cells when to multiply & divide— our cells are dynamic, and as we grow older, this must happen.

But when something happens to our DNA, this causes a mutation. Mutations underlie cancer startup— now, our cells lose the correct direction of when to multiply & divide appropriately.

Cancerous cells with the mutated DNA abnormally grow and divide, way more than our normal cells. The level at which cancer spreads is what denotes the stages:

• Stage I→ When cancerous cells are clumped in a tumor in one area. They haven’t spread.

• Stage II→ The tumor has grown bigger, and it potentially has reached the lymph nodes.

• Stage III→ Now, the tumor is spreading to nearby tissue & might have hit those lymph nodes.

• Stage IV→ The spreading stage, which is referred to as metastasizing. The cancer has now spread to other organs in the body

Should I get screened for breast cancer?

Why haven’t we found a cure?

All the time, money, hard work, and dedication to beat this beast, yet why haven’t we killed it yet?

Let’s dive into its complexity:

The word “cancer” is actually an umbrella term for over 200 diseases, with each personalized to a person’s own cells.

In other words, each cancer may be as unique and diverse as each person is. So even though one approach may work for one person, it might not for another, making this process challenging.

1. Mutations aren’t one-size-fits-all: they adapt, grow resilient, and are unpredictable. This makes creating a drug tricky, and even then, cancerous cells could work a way around the drug, making it defective.

2. Cancer cells don’t want to die. They are programmed to stay alive. They contain many tricks up their sleeve for how to avoid death, and we are trying to outsmart them today.

3. Campaign Spotlight

Inside Health spotlights the Know Your Lemons Foundation, founded by Dr. Corrine Ellsworth-Beaumont, empowering people worldwide to recognize the 12 signs of breast cancer. Learn, test your breast cancer IQ, and take charge of your health today!

You can download the app, named the  Best Health & Fitness App of 2025, a pocket-sized early detection tool!

• Teach and learn the 12 signs of breast cancer

• Track screenings & check-ups

• Test your Breast Cancer IQ

4. Author Feature

🚨New Published Author Alert!🚨 
Congratulations to Nishi Patel, our newest Inside Health author! Her work with Dr. Stephanie Grella is featured in our latest Inside Neuroscience article.

5. Trending Now:

LET’S TALK STOCK: AbbVie (NASDAQ: ABBV) is coming back strong with popular drugs Skyrizi and Rinvoq and new confirmed treatments for cancer and brain health… a stock to watch!

• Revenue: Skyrizi and Rinvoq expected to hit $25B combined sales in 2025.

• Pipeline: Oncology & neuroscience drugs, drove 20% growth in neuroscience sales in H1 2025.

• Fact: 30 acquisitions since 2024 strengthen AbbVie’s pipelines, with no big patents about to expire.

ON THE NEWS: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine just dropped!

In simple terms, Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered how our immune system stops us from attacking ourselves… a major win for autoimmune research.

• More information on this coming next week! Stay tuned!

That’s everything for now! Thanks for hanging out with Inside Health this week. Understanding how you function starts with education, and you’re already doing the work just by being here.

Until Next Time! —The Inside Health Team.