Breast Cancer Awareness
This is the month in which we raise awareness for breast cancer.
What is October?
This treatment involves removing the tumor by cutting it out of the body.
What is surgery?
A diet high in these unhealthy fats may increase your risk of breast cancer.
What are saturated fats?
These are the "building blocks" that make up all living things, including cancer.
What are cells?
This many women in the U.S. will get breast cancer in their lifetime.
What is 1 in 8?
These small parts of your body can change and cause cancer to grow.
What are cells?
This treatment uses strong medicines to kill cancer cells in the body.
What is chemotherapy?
Having a family member with breast cancer makes this happen to your risk.
What is increasing your risk?
Cancer cells grow in this way, which makes them dangerous.
What is uncontrolled growth?
Eating healthy, exercising, and avoiding smoking can all help with this.
What is preventing breast cancer?
This is the test that doctors use to check for breast cancer early.
What is a mammogram?
This type of treatment uses powerful rays to target and kill cancer cells.
What is radiation therapy?
This kind of test helps people find out if they have a higher risk of getting breast cancer.
What is genetic testing?
This part of cancer cells is larger than in normal cells because they make lots of proteins.
What is the nucleolus?
This is the survival rate for women who catch breast cancer early, before it spreads.
What is 90%?
Eating a healthy diet and doing this regularly can help lower your chance of getting breast cancer.
What is exercising?
These chemicals in the body, like estrogen, can sometimes make cancer grow faster.
What are hormones?
Long exposure to these harmful chemicals from pollution and tobacco smoke can increase your cancer risk
What are carcinogens?
These cancer cells can move to other parts of the body through the blood or lymph system.
What is metastasis?
This type of breast cancer can be treated by blocking hormones.
What is hormone-sensitive breast cancer?
This is the name for changes in the DNA that can lead to cancer.
What are mutations?
This new type of cancer treatment helps the immune system find and destroy cancer cells.
What is immunotherapy?
This is a specific gene that, when mutated, increases the risk of breast cancer.
What is BRCA1 or BRCA2?
Cancer cells can trick this system, which normally fights off bad cells.
What is the immune system?
This type of therapy blocks the growth of cancer by targeting specific molecules in cancer cells.
What is targeted therapy?