1. Let’s fight breast cancer starting with you.

2. You can fight breast cancer by being educated.

3. Let’s start with self-exam.

5. You’ve heard to “check for a lump” but do you know what a bad lump feels like?

9. Half of women don’t know what a cancerous lump feels like. Now, you can go tell them!

10. 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.

11. But a lump is not the only sign. There are actually 12 things you should look for.

15. Most women only know about a lump, now you can tell them about the other signs of breast cancer too.

16. Next, we’ll learn the steps you can take to detect breast cancer.

20. 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.

21. How often you are screened depends on your risk level. Let’s see what things increase your risk.

24. 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.

25. So, is the 1 in 8 statistic true?

26. 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-cancerincidence1 http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/probability-breast-cancer

27. 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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