Breast Cancer Awareness
This is a way to check for early signs of breast cancer by feeling unusual lumps.
What is a self-exam?
This type of treatment involves removing the cancerous tumor from the breast.
What is surgery?
A family history of breast cancer can make this happen to your risk of getting the disease.
What is increasing your risk?
These tiny building blocks of the body can change in harmful ways, leading to breast cancer.
What are cells?
This is the number of women in the U.S. who will get breast cancer at some point in their lives.
What is 1 in 8?
This type of scan, recommended for older women, can help find breast cancer early.
What is a mammogram?
This treatment uses strong medicines to destroy cancer cells throughout the body.
What is chemotherapy?
Being physically active, eating healthy foods, and avoiding smoking can help with this.
What is reducing the risk of breast cancer?
These changes in DNA can make cells grow uncontrollably and form a tumor.
What are mutations?
People with a healthy diet and active lifestyle can lower their risk of breast cancer by doing this.
What is staying healthy (or making healthy choices)?
This disease starts when cells in the breast grow uncontrollably.
What is breast cancer?
Doctors use this kind of treatment with high-energy rays to kill cancer cells in a specific area.
What is radiation therapy?
This type of test helps people find out if they have genes that might increase their chance of getting breast cancer.
What is genetic testing?
Cancer cells spread to other parts of the body in this way.
What is metastasis?
If breast cancer is found before it spreads, the survival rate after 5 years is about this percentage.
What is 90%?
These changes in the cells' genetic code can lead to breast cancer.
What are mutations?
This type of treatment blocks the hormones that help some breast cancers grow.
What is hormonal therapy?
This kind of exposure to the sun or pollution can increase the risk of breast cancer over time.
What is exposure to carcinogens?
These cancer cells grow very fast and trick the body’s defense system so they can spread.
What is immune evasion?
Some breast cancers grow faster when they receive signals from these chemicals in the body.
What are hormones?
This is the specific name for genes, like BRCA1 and BRCA2, that can increase the chance of getting breast cancer if they have a mutation.
What are tumor suppressor genes?
This newer type of treatment helps the body’s immune system fight breast cancer.
What is immunotherapy?
This gene mutation significantly increases the risk of developing breast cancer.
What is the BRCA1 mutation (or BRCA2 mutation)?
These cancer cells use this part of the body, which normally fights germs, to spread cancer without being stopped.
What is the immune system?
This type of therapy is designed to target specific parts of cancer cells to stop them from growing.
What is targeted therapy?