Some of the stars, singers or actresses, who had breast cancer chose to speak openly about their cancer experience because they want to help other people. They want to make a wake up call and to make all women aware of the fact that this can happen to anybody anytime. That is why many famous magazines write articles about this topic: it sells really well and, besides, it helps women get the information they need.
I am not talking here only about specialized magazines, medical journals or other similar magazines that address only a limited public. They approach breast cancer from the medical point of view, with articles about the latest discoveries in this field, the latest drugs to be used or I don't know what other surgical procedures and performances. But there are also a lot of magazines that address to common people, to all the women , who are very interested in finding out some credible information about their health.
They will contain maybe interviews with people like Anastacia - a famous singer, or Kylie Minogue. They both wen through the unpleasant experience of breast cancer treatment and survived because the cancer was detected in the incipient stages. So women can read such a magazine and find out things about fashion, music and health issues at the same time. And it's beneficial for everybody.
Then there are the magazines specialized on health topics and advice , but the articles written there use a very accessible language in order to be understood by the common people, not only by specialists. SO a breast cancer article in such a magazine will be both easy to read, but also containing what's the most important thing we need to know about the subject: location, risk factors, treatment, detection and so on. They may even contain the point of view of a specialist that will make the article credible and trustworthy.
Nowadays almost all famous magazines also have an online edition or web site, so you can find a lot of these breast cancer articles if you search the internet. Here are some examples of very famous magazines that published breast cancer articles lately: Time magazine, The New England Journal of Medicine, Natural News, Breast Cancer Research, Women's Health, Ms. Magazine. As you can see from the tiltles, the magazines in the list are both specialized ones - medical journals, but also fashion and beauty or health magazines.
But the most important thing about all of them is the fact that they offer veridic information to the readers and they open the door for further curiosity and knowledge. The article in each of these magazines can't possibly exhaust the subject and tell you everything about it, but it does offer the essential. The further detailed information is up to us to find after that.