Recognizing and Participating in Breast Cancer Awareness
It is important for anyone woman to have Breast Cancer Awareness. This will help protect them because through awareness they can help catch it early enough for treatment. Aside from the occurrence of skin cancer, the occurrence of breast cancer is the next most common cancer to affect women.
Recognizing
You need to know your family history to help assess the risk factor of having it. If your mother or grandmother has had it, you definitely have a higher risk of getting it. So ask your relatives to find out how prevalent it is in your family’s health history.
Getting regular screenings from your doctor. A clinical-type breast exam should be given every year starting at 20 years of age and then at 40 years of age it needs to be done once a year. A mammogram should be gotten every year after age 40 if you are at normal risk of getting breast tumors. More often if you are high risk.
Know your breasts so that you know when changes occur. Please exam them visually as well as physically at least once a month if not more. Notice and contact your physician if any of the following occurs.
1. Changes occur in the shape or size of your breast.
2. If your breast has a lump, thickening, it can also get a knot that is hard.
3. If the breast skin develops puckering or dimpling.
4. If it becomes swollen, warm, or has redness or darkens in color.
5. If the nipple gets a rash or scaly type sore that itches.
6. A discharge starts leaking from your nipple.
7. If you nipple starts to pull in or the other sections of your breast.
8. A pain that is new comes up and will not cease.
It is important to have a healthy lifestyle to prevent this cancer. Get to a healthy weight for you and maintain by eating a well-balanced diet that is low fat. Exercise on a daily basis and you should watch how much alcohol you drink.
Participating
There are cancer walks all the time that you can do to show your support for Breast Cancer Awareness. There is the pink ribbon campaign where you wear the pink ribbons to show your support for the sufferers and survivors of breast cancer. You can also get involved in fund raising to further cancer research. Volunteer to work with cancer patients; they always need volunteers in the hospitals to, if nothing else, cheer people up and onto recovery. If you are a survivor of breast cancer, the story of your battle can really help someone get through their battle. Because without your support and others like you, some 10 million Individuals may die from breast cancer within about 25 years.
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