Dr. Salem was interviewed live on FOX26 in Houston, Texas along with Salem Oncology Center patient, Alison Rash, a breast cancer survivor. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in American women with 1 in 8 women in the United States developing breast cancer in her lifetime. 62% of these cases are diagnosed at a localized stage, for which the 5-year survival rate is 99%, and there are more than 3.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.