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Breast Cancer Awareness
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Health Tip: Breast Self-Exams; They Can Help Detect Cancer Early" - HealthDay News
Women should examine their breasts regularly to detect lumps or abnormalities that could signal breast cancer. This piece includes the five basic steps of a breast self-exam. [more]
“Blacks Have Higher Breast Cancer Death” - UPI
Health Tip: Breast Self-Exams
They can help detect cancer early
(HealthDay News) -- Women should examine their breasts regularly to detect lumps or abnormalities that could signal breast cancer. An exam should be done once a month, several days after the last day of a woman's period.
Here are the five basic steps to a breast self-exam, courtesy of Breastcancer.org:
Standing with your shoulders straight and your arms on your hips, face a mirror. Look for any differences in size, shape, color, swelling or bulging of the skin, changes in the nipple, or any signs of redness or rash.
Raise your arms, and examine your breasts for any of those differences.
Gently squeeze each nipple to check for any discharge.
Lie down, and feel each breast with the hand of the opposite arm. Feel all the tissue, applying pressure to check deep tissue for any lumps or abnormalities.
Examine the breasts while you are standing or sitting, gently examining the entire breast. You may want to try this method in the shower, while the skin is slippery.
Press Release
CONTACT:
Michiele Phannix
Resource Families of
Moreno Valley, CA
951-242-2204 office
ivorfpa@aol.com
INLAND VALLEY OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY FOSTER PARENTS ASSOCIATION, INC
RECOGNIZES NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH OCTOBER 2009
MORENO VALLEY, CA – October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM). Since the program began in 1985, mammography rates have more than doubled for women age 50 and older and breast cancer deaths have declined.
This is exciting progress, but there are still women who do not take advantage of early detection at all and others who do not get screening mammograms and clinical breast exams at regular intervals.
• Women age 40 and older are less likely to get mammograms than OLDER women, even though breast cancer risk increases with age.
• Hispanic women have fewer mammograms than Caucasian women and African American women.
• Women below poverty level are less likely than women at higher incomes to have had a mammogram within the past two years.
• Mammography use has increased for all groups except American Indians and Alaska Natives.
One of beloved resource mothers paid the price of breast cancer, as she parented other children, she neglected to care for herself, with physicals and early detection, when diagnosed, this person was in her last stage of breast cancer and in the event of chemo and radiation, it was too late and she passed away as her nine year old daughter watched with her very own eyes her mother left this earth slowly, not knowing what the condition of her sickness entailed. We are asking that you please take advantage of this month of October, get a mammogram for your sake, and your family sake…...
“If all women age 40 and older took advantage of early detection methods – mammography plus clinical breast exam – breast cancer death rates would drop much further, up to 30 percent,” says local physicians in the area, of Moreno Valley, CA
“The key to mammography screening is that it be done routinely – once is not enough.”
IVORFPA, INC. IS PLEASE CALL MICHIELE
951-242-2204
FOR MORE INFORMATION…..
For more information about NBCAM, please visit www.nbcam.org. For additional information, please call one of the following toll-free numbers: American Cancer Society,
(800) 227-2345, National Cancer Institute (NCI), (800) 4-CANCER, Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, (800) 221-2141.
The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month program is dedicated to increasing public knowledge about the importance of early detection of breast cancer. Fifteen national public service organizations, professional associations, and government agencies comprise the Board of Sponsors, who work together to ensure that the NBCAM message is heard by thousands of women and their families.
In memory of one of our very own FP: Sheila B.
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