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It's October, which I think is my favorite month out of the year.

My birthday is this month, Halloween is this month, I love as the weather starts to change,

so this month means a lot to me.

It also means a lot to anyone who thinks about breast cancer because it is breast cancer

awareness month, and I think it's a time to shine a light

on a disease that does affect so many people.

I've dealt with this in my own family, and as you probably know, one of our very own here at CNN has been

navigating and also very candidly sharing her own personal experience with

it. Breast cancer does not run in my family and yet here I am with stage 3

breast cancer. It is hard to say out loud. That's anchor and senior national

correspondent Sarah Sidner. She revealed her diagnosis on air to the world this past January.

And I think right away a lot of people could relate because Sarah is describing a journey that is all too familiar for people all over the country

One in eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime

And right now there are currently more than 4 million breast

cancer survivors in the country. One of the beautiful really kind of

heartwarming aspects of Sarah's story is that one of her closest friends,

CNN Stephanie Elem, has been with Sarah every step of the way.

And at the same time Sarah was dealing with her diagnosis, another dear friend of Stephanie's,

former MTV host Ananda Lewis, was also going through her own experience with breast cancer.

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