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Breast Health
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Statistics
Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer. Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with it. By the age of 85, one in nine women will have developed breast cancer. This year alone, we will lose over 46,000 women to this disease.
Although 89% of the women that develop breast cancer have no risk factors other than being a woman. The following factors put a woman at a higher risk: Age: 70% of the women who develop breast cancer are over the age of 50. Heredity: history of a mother, a sister or a daughter that developed breast cancer; and No parity: never having had a child or late childbearing -- having your first child after the age of 30.
Early detection by mammography alone will save the lives of one in three of the women who die of breast cancer. Early detection in most cases allows for breast conservation -- saving not only the life, but the breast of a woman. Every woman should follow the guidelines of the American Cancer Society by having regular mammograms, performing monthly self-breast exams and having a physical exam performed yearly by a health care practitioner.
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