Her health runs deep. It's not the treadmill variety, but the kind that spills out of sassy smiles, makes eyes glimmer, and warms a room.
...health that strengthens a woman from the inside out.
When OurHealth decided to feature Robin Roberts, the writers gave a collective "that's my girl" wink.
She is healthy, and a role model, not only because she is actively and publicly fighting breast cancer, but because she lives with a brand of health that draws us to reexamine our lives, our choices and our priorities.
She's a breast cancer survivor. Yes. But she has not let that own her, define her or stop her. And her commitment to living is the very definition of marvelous.
She's at the top of her game.
Who is Robin Roberts? Simply put, a phenom. She is a southern girl who seized Title IX opportunities to earn a spot in the basketball Hall of Fame at Southeastern Louisiana University. She understands the power of sports to transform lives, and decided to enter a career in sports broadcasting. Ms. Roberts reshaped the male dominated world by becoming an award-winning anchor of ESPN's "Sports Center" and host of "ABC Sports". She rose to the top of her profession, and now serves as a news anchor on ABC's "Good Morning America"
She stole our hearts with her impassioned and deeply personal reporting on Hurricane Katrina. A daughter of the gulf coast, she exposed us to the depths of the human spirit.
Her latest campaign is our business. She is committed to teaching women - particularly Black women - the risk factors for and treatments of breast cancer.
In honor of Robin Roberts, we'd like you to know about The Sister Study
African-American women are less likely than white women to develop breast cancer but slightly more likely to die from it. One reason, experts say, is they are prone to the aggressive "triple-negative" variety (in which tumors resist some targeted treatments). The NIEHS is recruiting more women of color to the Sister Study (sisterstudy.org), designed to analyze genetic and environmental risk factors over a life span among some 50,000 women. To begin with, those enrolled offer samples of blood, urine and toenails as well as household dust. They also answer yearly medical questionnaires. Says study director Dr. Dale Sandler: "We hope to get some answers."
Her health runs deep. It's not the treadmill variety, but the kind that spills out of sassy smiles, makes eyes glimmer, and warms a room.
...health that strengthens a woman from the inside out.
When OurHealth decided to feature Robin Roberts, the writers gave a collective "that's my girl" wink.
She is healthy, and a role model, not only because she is actively and publicly fighting breast cancer, but because she lives with a brand of health that draws us to reexamine our lives, our choices and our priorities.
She's a breast cancer survivor. Yes. But she has not let that own her, define her or stop her. And her commitment to living is the very definition of marvelous.
She's at the top of her game.
Who is Robin Roberts? Simply put, a phenom. She is a southern girl who seized Title IX opportunities to earn a spot in the basketball Hall of Fame at Southeastern Louisiana University. She understands the power of sports to transform lives, and decided to enter a career in sports broadcasting. Ms. Roberts reshaped the male dominated world by becoming an award-winning anchor of ESPN's "Sports Center" and host of "ABC Sports". She rose to the top of her profession, and now serves as a news anchor on ABC's "Good Morning America"
She stole our hearts with her impassioned and deeply personal reporting on Hurricane Katrina. A daughter of the gulf coast, she exposed us to the depths of the human spirit.
Her latest campaign is our business. She is committed to teaching women - particularly Black women - the risk factors for and treatments of breast cancer.
In honor of Robin Roberts, we'd like you to know about The Sister Study
She speaks.