Transcript Let`s fight breast cancer starting with you.

Let’s fight
breast cancer starting
with
you.
You can fight
breast cancer by
being educated.
Let’s start with self-exam.
You’ve heard to
“check for a lump”
but do you know what a bad
lump feels like?
Half of women
don’t know what a cancerous
lump feels like.
Now, you can go tell them!
You can self-exam any way you like:
laying down, in the shower, etc.
Don’t worry if you don’t do it often, once
a season is usually enough.
The key is not to hunt for cancer, just be
generally aware of what’s normal for you.
But a lump is not the only sign.
There are actually 12 things you
should look for.
Most women only know about a
lump, now you can tell them about
the other signs of breast cancer
too.
Next, we’ll learn the
steps you can take to
detect breast cancer.
Mammograms can detect cancer
long before it can be felt. So
getting a mammogram is
important.
The cure rate is over 90% when
detected early.
How often you are screened
depends on your risk level.
Let’s see what things increase
your risk.
You can print out your own risk
assessment at
worldwidebreastcancer.com
and bring it with you to your next
doctor’s appointment.
Then you can make a plan
together for screening.
So, is the 1 in 8 statistic true?
Yes and no.
Age 30: 1 in 227
Age 40: 1 in 68
Age 50: 1 in 42
Age 60: 1 in 28
Age 70: 1 in 26
Lifetime: 1 in 8
Based on current incidence rates, 12.4 percent of women born in the United States today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives
(1). This estimate, from the most recentSEER Cancer Statistics Review (a report published annually by the National Cancer Institute’s [NCI]
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results [SEER] Program), is based on breast cancer statistics for the years 2007 through 2009.
This estimate means that, if the current incidence rate stays the same, a woman born today has about a 1 in 8 chance of being diagnosed with breast
cancer at some time during her life. On the other hand, the chance that she will never have breast cancer is 87.6 percent, or about 7 in 8.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/probability-breast-cancer
These statistics are different for
every country.
Some reasons for this could be:
• people often die from something else first
• it’s not found due to lack of equipment or expertise
• environmental and cultural influences
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