You’ve probably noticed by now that October is breast cancer awareness month. Of course it’s important to know the facts about the disease, but it’s also important to consider the real lives that this disease affects. It affects women like Elizabeth Pesce, a breast cancer survivor who serves on Wistar’s Leadership Council. When Elizabeth’s daughter was a little girl, she asked her mother if she too would someday have cancer, and Elizabeth replied, “Not if I can help it.”