October is Breast Cancer Awareness month; it usually celebrates women fighting the disease, but in rare occasions, men can be diagnosed with breast cancer.

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, patients and survivors are speaking out on how the treatment landscape is setting them up to not just survive, but to thrive.

Breast cancer gets incredible PR—but in reality, things are much more grim than they appear. And that can be detrimental to the people actually dealing with it.