A friend of mine has breast cancer. She’s taking it well actually. She figures that she’ll just go in, have the mastectomy and be done with it. I envy her courage though I’m sure her outside calm must in the middle of the night give way to worry and fear. Each year more than 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and of those 40,000 will die according to the American Cancer Society. Doing some simply bath in my brunette head, that comes out to be a 25% mortality rate. The good news is, 97% of women survive breast cancer when it is discovered early.
The ACS recommends a Breast Cancer Self Exam (BSE) monthly and posts directions you can read at this link here. There are some additional options though for the BSE that may be worth taking a look at that are reported to make the BSE easier:
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