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[grav_ity]

This is for my aunt and my grandmother...and for everyone else I know who is on the "someday" list. Your area has an organization. Help them if you can.




I have 126 flisters. According to statistics, the chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman's life is about 1 in 8. Source. To put that in perspective, that means, assuming all female, there are 16 individuals on my flist that will be affected by breast cancer. How absolutely insane is that? (Note: some of my flisters are male and at least two of them are Knitted, but being affected is being affected)

Have you screened yourself lately? Early detection of breast cancer saves lives. Start your Early Detection Plan today.

→ Every woman should do a self breast exam once a month, about a week after her period ends. Here's information on How to Preform a breast self-exam. About 15% of tumors are felt but cannot be seen by regular mammographic screening.
→ Between the ages of 20 and 39, every woman should have a clinical breast exam every 3 years.
→ After age 40, every woman should have a clinical breast exam done each year.

The earlier that a breast cancer is detected, the more likely it is that treatment can be curable. Mammograms, clinical breast exams, and breast self-exams are key. Regular screening mammograms can decrease the mortality of breast cancer by 30%.

For more information on Breast Cancer, go here. For donations, go here. Or to try walking, go here.

Click to give free mammograms! -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing!


I have [INSERT NUMBER HERE] flisters. According to statistics, the chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman's life is about 1 in 8. <a href=<a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_are_the_key_statistics_for_breast_cancer_5.asp?sitearea=" target="_blank">http://www.cancer.org/<WBR>docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_<WBR>1X_What_are_the_key_<WBR>statistics_for_breast_cancer_<WBR>5.asp?sitearea=</a>>Source</A>. To put that in perspective, that means, assuming all female, there are [INSERT NUMBER HERE] individuals on my flist that will be affected by breast cancer. How absolutely <I>insane</i> is that? Have you screened yourself lately? Early detection of breast cancer saves lives. Start your Early Detection Plan today. → Every woman should do a self breast exam once a month, about a week after her period ends. <a href=<a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_How_to_perform_a_breast_self_exam_5.asp?sitearea=" target="_blank">http://www.cancer.org/<WBR>docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_<WBR>How_to_perform_a_breast_self_<WBR>exam_5.asp?sitearea=</a>>Here's information on How to Preform a breast self-exam</a>. About 15% of tumors are felt but cannot be seen by regular mammographic screening. → Between the ages of 20 and 39, every woman should have a clinical breast exam every 3 years. → After age 40, every woman should have a clinical breast exam done each year. The earlier that a breast cancer is detected, the more likely it is that treatment can be curable. Mammograms, clinical breast exams, and breast self-exams are key. Regular screening mammograms can decrease the mortality of breast cancer by 30%. For more information on Breast Cancer, go <a href= <a href="http://www.oncolink.org/types/article.cfm?c=3&s=5&ss=33&id=8320&p=1" target="_blank">http://www.oncolink.org/types/<WBR>article.cfm?c=3&s=5&ss=33&id=<WBR>8320&p=1</a>>here</a>. For donations, go <a href=<a href="http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2" target="_blank">http://www.<WBR>thebreastcancersite.com/<WBR>clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=<WBR>2</a>>here</A>. Or to try walking, go <a href=<a href="http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_homepage" target="_blank">http://walk.<WBR>avonfoundation.org/site/<WBR>PageServer?pagename=walk_<WBR>homepage</a>>here</A>. Click to give free mammograms! -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! <a href="<a href="http://www.thebreastcancersite.com" target="_blank">http://www.<WBR>thebreastcancersite.com</a>"><img src="<a href="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b349/evilfuzzymonster/0x98fc353841265a7bc0a80a36.gif" target="_blank">http://i22.photobucket.<WBR>com/albums/b349/<WBR>evilfuzzymonster/<WBR>0x98fc353841265a7bc0a80a36.gif</a><WBR>"></a> <small>Originated by <lj site="livejournal.com" user="ed_84"></small>

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Canadian Cancer Society
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
Rethink Breast Cancer (site targeted at "young" people)

Comments

[archae-ology.livejournal.com]

I've actually been thinking about going in and asking my doctor to book me an appointment for a mammogram. I have utterly no family history of it (we go for the lung cancer, and the very, very rare forms of bone cancer), but my personal medical background says that it is something that could happen, and thus I need to keep an eye on things. Not to mention I'm already a patient at the Durham regional cancer centre thanks to my white blood cell count. Need to go for another appointment sometime soon, make sure it's not spiking too high.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I haven't really done anything other than self-exams. Although I guess there was a breast exam when I got my birth control prescription. My family doesn't have a lot of history, my grandmother's cancer was in her liver, but still...1 in 8 is a really scary number.

[ed-84.livejournal.com]

Dude, get the examination anyway. Family history only goes so far. There's always the first in the family, and in 1960, the average rate of breast cancer was 1 in 20. Now it's 1 in 8! That tells you something.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Well I had one in 2007, when I went for the birth control, so at the end of the summer I am due again.

[ed-84.livejournal.com]

Ah, then. Excellent.