OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
I remember sitting in a group of four girls discussing everyday life, when someone started to talk about her aunt's diagnose of breast cancer. She went on to say "One out of four women are diagnosed with Breast Cancer, do you know what this means?" she asked, "one of us will get breast cancer." Then there was silence. According to the Canadian Cancer Society the correct statistic is one in nine women.
So who gets breast cancer? Everyone. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among young adults. Although there are more cases where Caucasian women are affected, African-American and minority women have higher fatality rates because of the lack of early detection. In the end, more than ethnicity or age, lifestyle choices are what comes to play when reducing your risk of cancer.
Self-examining is crucial! Here's a how-to diagram.
{picture courtesy of nursingcrib.com}
Other things that experts recommend are: exercising, watching your weight, avoiding hormones and minimizing alcohol. Pretty much common sense healthy stuff you should be doing anyways, right?
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Thanks for the how to Diagram :)
I always put this off, but it's so important to do the whole self-examination! Thanks for the remainder.
I barely ever do it, but you're right, it's so important.
I've had fibroadenoma and it's supposed to be non cancerous. But science always develops so for all anyone knows, they could find it to be cancerous. Anyways, thanks for the diagram, I should do checks monthly because of my past case... and I'm only 19 =|