Finding the words

Even the best-intentioned person can become speechless or tongue-tied when reacting to a loved one's breast cancer diagnosis. What should you say? And what should you not say? Several peer counselors at Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization offered the statements they found most and least helpful to hear during their own breast cancer battles.

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Tribune Newspapers

September 21, 2011