Breast Cancer is a disease that must be taken seriously. Here are some important facts you and your loved ones need to know.
Early Detection: When found and treated in its earliest stage, breast cancer is highly curable. The five-year relative survival rate for localized breast cancer is 96%! Early detection truly is your best protection.
Biggest Risk Factors: Being a woman and being age 50 or older.
Screening Mammograms: A mammogram can find cancer when it’s very small, often several years before a woman or her doctor would be able to feel it. Women age 40 and over should have one every year.
Breast Self-Exam: Women age 20 and over should have one every month.
Clinical Breast Exam: Women ages 30 years and yearly after age 40.
It’s very important that women are educated about the disease and have resources they can use. Listed below are just a few organizations that are giving support, information and educating women and their loved ones on breast cancer.
Lively source of news, information and support by this volunteer organization that offers a variety of prevention and early detection programs for various cancer types. The society sponsors annually the “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” Walk. Call 1-800-ACS-2345 to talk to a breast cancer survivor.
National African American breast cancer survivors support organization. African American women under the age of 50 also have a higher incidence of breast cancer than Caucasian women. While the five-year survival rate for Caucasian women is 85%, it is only 70% for African American women.
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
Eradicating breast cancer by advancing research, education, screening, and treatment. Promoters of the Komen Race for the Cure.
The National Breast Cancer Foundation
The National Breast Cancer Foundation’s mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education and by providing mammograms for those in need.
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