Real women talk about their triple negative breast cancer experiences in Merck's ongoing campaign.

Mer­ck con­tin­ues rare breast can­cer cam­paign fo­cused on chal­lenges for Black women

Oc­to­ber may be over, but Mer­ck is con­tin­u­ing to dri­ve its aware­ness ef­forts around breast can­cer — es­pe­cial­ly fo­cused on the rare triple neg­a­tive sub­type and Black women who are dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly af­fect­ed.

Ac­tress Yvonne Or­ji, who al­so holds a mas­ter’s de­gree in pub­lic health, nar­rates the three-video do­cuseries at the cen­ter of “Un­cov­er­ing TNBC” with each one fea­tur­ing a dif­fer­ent Black woman who has triple neg­a­tive breast can­cer (TNBC). Or­ji in­ter­views each one, touch­ing on a range of phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al and fi­nan­cial chal­lenges in the dis­ease di­ag­no­sis, treat­ment and be­yond.

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