Miriam Mutebi, Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University Hospital shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Doctor, why do I have this disease? I did everything right.
That question, asked by a young woman breastfeeding her baby, diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer, shattered everything I thought I knew about breast cancer.
Medical textbooks told me breast cancer was an older woman’s disease. That young women who breastfed and had children were relatively ‘protected’.
The textbooks lied. Since that first interaction years ago, I have met:
- A 25-year-old, planning her wedding, when cancer interrupted her dreams.
- A 39-year-old, finally pregnant after years of trying, when she felt the lump.
- A woman, who was told she was ‘too young’ for breast cancer until it was almost too late.
These women didn’t fit the textbook profile, but they filled my clinic. That’s why I wrote ‘Stuff I’d Tell My Sister’. A book that is personal, practical, and unapologetically honest.
It’s about the women I couldn’t save and the ones I helped to receive timely care.
It’s about faith and medicine coexisting, not competing. It’s about financial toxicity, cultural silence, and systemic failures, and what we’re building instead. It’s about you owning your body, your health, and your story.
PRE-ORDERS open soon.
We’re printing 100 physical copies for the launch on March 18. Digital versions will also be available.
– What’s one myth about women breast health that you wish more people understood was false?”
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