Assignment 1 I chose to write about this article because I found it extremely important and a concerning issue that I think most females should know about. The article I chose was written in the Science Daily on March 24 2015. It is a very newly founded discovery that I think should be brought to attention. The article discusses and explains the research behind how women with diabetes are more likely to have a higher staged breast cancer than women who do not have diabetes. The study was tried on more than thirty eight thousand women who have breast cancer. Out of that total a little over six thousand women had diabetes. According to the article, “Breast cancer patients with diabetes were significantly more likely to present with advanced stage breast cancer than those without diabetes.” The researches statistics proved that unlike women without diabetes those with diabetes were fourteen percent more likely to get stage two breast cancer, twenty one percent more likely to get Stage three and sixteen percent more likely to get stage four. However, this was not the only finding that I found to be extremely important. The article also discussed how those with diabetes are also more likely to have the cancer spread throughout their bodies causing lymph node metastases, and larger tumors. The article really raised my attention because many members of my own family including my personal family have diabetes so this topic hit home for me. I was intrigued to find that there was a correlation between the two since both the disease and the cancer are so different and affect such different parts of your body. I don’t think that many people would ever assume that having diabetes could take your risk of cancer severity even higher. I really enjoyed reading this article because it gave me incite to something important that I was unaware about and I think that this article