Almost all breast cancers can be successfully treated if found early and this is another tool to make early detection possible.
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Sharp Memorial offers a nationally recognized, comprehensive Breast Health Center that focuses on early detection and advanced treatment of all breast conditions.
Women who call might be eligible for a mammogram through Ohio’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Project. Today, I am announcing that my administration’s answer to this question is an absolute yes. There was a spot and they took extra pictures. They will become part of more than 2.8 million living with breast cancer or a history of the disease. I know what it is to hear that word, to hear that “c” word.
In the beginning of the development process, breast cancer is too small to feel and does not cause signs and symptoms that are easily detected by the naked eye or to the touch. Both variants will be pink, but there will be one with no logo or anything on the back, while the other will have the Breast Cancer Ribbon.
Gloucester Premium Outlets has begun a “Mission Pink” campaign for breast cancer research and awareness month and proceeds will benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
“Too many times I have women come in with large palpable masses they ignored or didn’t notice, that could’ve been picked up as a small tumor”. “I can’t even begin to tell you how much it means to me as a wife and mother”. She says if anything seems odd, get it checked out. The earlier breast cancer cases are caught, the better the woman’s survival rate.
“It is so important!”
The cancer didn’t defeat her. She completed her treatments in August.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States and it is also the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women after lung cancer. This can and should be done at any age. Mammograms can show lumps or specks that may be from cancer, precancerous cells or other conditions that would require further testing.
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While Dana is out on that field at halftime she wants everyone to think about their sisters, mothers, daughters, themselves and hear one simple message. This will include a clinical breast exam.
