Breast Anatomy
To produce milk (lactate).
What is the physiological function of the breasts?
If you do not have a family history of breast cancer, you will not get it.
What is a myth?
Lumpy breasts
What is normal?
True/false: Women of color are diagnosed with breast cancer at an older age compared to white women.
What is false?
Women of color are diagnosed at a younger age (45 and under).
An X-ray of the breasts.
What is a mammogram?
The action of feeding a baby with milk from the breast.
What is breastfeeding?
Men do not get breast cancer.
What is a myth?
Although rare, men can develop breast cancer.
Having one breast that is larger (or smaller) than the other.
What is normal?
This racial/ethnic group has the highest breast cancer mortality rate.
Who are Black women?
The mortality rate is 31%, the highest of any racial/ethnic group.
This is the age when women should start receiving yearly mammograms
What is 40 years old?
Milk comes out of this part of the breast.
What is the nipple?
There are many types of breast cancer.
What is fact?
There are at least 8 types of breast cancer. Some include triple-negative breast cancer (an aggressive type) and angiosarcoma (cancer that starts in the lymph vessels).
Having nipple discharge
What is not normal?
The number of breast cancer cases is ____ (higher/lower) among women of color.
What is lower?
While women of color have lower incidents (cases) of breast cancer than white women, they have a higher mortality rate.
This is how often women should perform breast self-exams.
What is once a month?
The area of dark-colored skin on the breast that surrounds the nipple.
What is the areola?
You can only get breast cancer if you're over 40.
What is a myth?
A breast looking like an orange peel
What is not normal?
True/false: Women who use hormone replacement therapy (HRT)/gender-affirming hormones have a higher risk of breast cancer than those who do not.
What is true?
The research is still ongoing but studies have shown an increase in the risk. Women using HRT for more than five years should get regular breast screenings.
The part of the fingers you should use when doing a breast self-exam.
What are the pads of the fingers?
These small tubes carry milk to the nipples.
What are milk (mammary) ducts?
Wearing a bra or using antiperspirant deodorant causes breast cancer.
What is a myth?
Inverted nipple
What is normal?
This type of breast cancer is most commonly diagnosed among Black women and Hispanic/Latina women. (Hint: it was mentioned in the Fact or Myth category)
What is triple-negative breast cancer?
True/false: Mammograms prevent breast cancer.
What is false?
Mammograms are a great tool for early detection, but they do not prevent breast cancer.