linds lindsay avner took a courageous stand against the disease before she became a statistic.obin meade has today's breakthrough women. >> reporter: at 23, lindsay avner took the extreme step of having both her healthy breasts removed. >> i have a very strong family history of both breast and ovarian cancer. when my mom was only 18, her mother and grandmother died a week apart, both from breast cancer. >> reporter: avner's mother was also later diagnosed with both breast and ovarian cancer. she carried a breast cancer gene and avner has it too. >> when someone looked you in the eyes and tell you you have an 87% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, it changes everything. i couldn't live like that. >> reporter: avner decided to fight back with drastic surgery. >> i wasn't a survivor, i didn't have cancer, but i was living with this very, very increased risk. >> reporter: so she started bright pink. through it, avner has helped thousands of women just like her. >> she's kind of helped me find my voice and inspiring other young women to think about their bodies, to do self-b

she carried a breast cancer gene, and avner had it, too. >> when somebody looks you in the eyes and says you have an 87%le chance, how do you deal with that? >> reporter: she wasn't alone. >> i was living with this very significant increased risk. >> reporter: she started bright pink, a network for cancer awareness and support. through it she's helped thousands of women just like her. >> she's helped me find my voice in inspiring other women to do self-breast examination and think about your body. >> there's nothing like an opportunity to pay it forward and make it different for somebody else. >> hundreds of people lined up waiting for a mall to open, but they didn't want a new video game or a cell phone. they just don't want to get sick. >>> plus it may be the most bizarre marketing partnership ever. find out what company asked burger king to sell a whopper with seven patties. >>> a lot of people these days are just happy to have a job, but they may not be very healthy. a study from the nonprofit families and work institute finds that one third of workers have at least one symptom of de