In the 40-44 age group, from 2,000 to 2,500 women need to be screened annually to save one life. ‘Cos it’s as important as for women!
Advertisement
“I’m outraged by it to be honest”. The longer a woman waits between mammograms, the larger a potential cancer will be at the time of diagnosis.
The first step is to learn your family history.
Breast Cancer Awareness month ends this week, and to mark the importance of the issue, a Houston singer who survived the disease is sharing her truly inspiring story.
“In our own way, we want to let more people know that early detection of breast cancer saves thousands of lives”, said Natasha Bautista.
“I think (the obesity theory) makes sense”, said Michelle Martin, a breast cancer researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Though making it through treatment was not easy, the most challenging part of the cancer battle is fearing what may happen after your treatment ends. “It’s very upsetting to hear that they may have to wait 20 or 30 years before they’re even checked”.
Kelley Matkins with our local Susan G Komen office also disagrees with the American Cancer Society’s new guidelines.
Women diagnosed with stage 0 breast cancer have a wide range of treatment options: treat it, have a mastectomy or do nothing.
Breast cancers with no receptors for estrogen, progesterone, or HER2 are called triple negative (TN). Clinical breast exams include a doctor or nurse feeling for lumps in the breast and are recommended for all women older than 19.
So it came as something of a shock last week when the Cancer Society recommended that women at average risk begin annual screenings at age 45 – five years later than it previously recommended – and that at age 55, women can cut back to a mammogram every other year.
Wessler: “Had I not been attuned to my body and had gone on these recommendations, I feel I would’ve been dead”.
“We’ve known for a few time about the probable link between red and processed meat and bowel cancer, which is backed by substantial evidence”.
Advertisement
She said that moment was, “Scary, sad…” And more importantly health insurance companies don’t change their practices. Now a recent report have risen another questions about the value of mammograms suggesting that screening and early detection are not preventing breast cancer. In our region of Southwest Virginia, CBEs are sometimes the only accessible screening for rural women who don’t have easy access to mammograms.
