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Breast Cancer Facts & Information
NEW!
Test Your Breast Cancer Awareness Level:
The following brief
survey may help you go up on the learning curve concerning important
issues regarding breast cancer...Click
here to read more
NEW!
Three Ways to Spread Breast Cancer
Awareness: With October recognized as National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month , many organizations involved in Breast Cancer
research will need a helping hand to promote awareness campaigns...Click
here to read more
Breast Cancer Risk Factors:
To predict when and in whom breast cancer will strike, scientists must
often think like detectives, looking for clues to signal which women
may be more likely than others to develop the disease. These clues are
called "risk factors"....Click
here to read more
Breast Cancer Prevention: Improve Your Lifestyle:
Common to all
women are daily lifestyle decisions that may affect breast cancer
risk. These day-to-day choices involve factors such as poor diet,
insufficient physical activity, alcohol use and smoking. Besides
possibly reducing breast cancer risk, lifestyle improvement represent
smart steps for a healthier life, since they can help prevent heart
disease, diabetes and many other chronic, life-threatening
conditions...Click
here to read more
Reminders to Do Your Breast Self Examinations: There is
something each one of us can do to fight against breast cancer, and it
doesn't cost, but a few minutes of your time: Monthly Breast
Self-Exams (BSE). Are you taking the time for BSE? Do you forget? We
came up with a way to make this part of your life...Click
here to read more
Breast Cancer Early Detection: When breast cancer is detected
early and treated promptly, suffering and ultimately the loss of life
can be significantly reduced. Women are encouraged to ask their
doctors and other health care providers about mammography screening.
Mammography (and x-ray picture of the breast) is the single most
effective method to detect breast changes that may be cancer, long
before physical symptoms can be seen or felt. For early stage breast
cancer, there are more treatment options, treatment can be less
disfiguring and less toxic and survival is improved...Click
here to read more
Breast Cancer Treatment Facts:
When breast cancer is
detected at an early stage of development, a number of effective
treatment options are available. A woman and her physician will choose
the treatment that is right for her, based on the location and extent
of the cancer, her age and preferences, and the risks and benefits of
each treatment. The basic treatment choices for breast cancer are
surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy...Click
here to read more
Gifts for Breast Cancer
Survivors: If you have loved ones or friends that have
survived breast cancer, it’s time for celebration. Your friend or
loved one has been through a very stressful time and lots of
procedures...Click here
to read more.
Information on this page has been, in
large part, reproduced, with permission, from
NBCAM (supported by
an unrestricted educational grant from AstraZeneca Healthcare
Foundation).
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