Prevention
Early Detection
Risk Factors
Treatments
Pink Ribbon
100
These two actions are good ways most women can reduce breast cancer risk.
What is a healthy diet and physical activity?
100
To find cancers before they start to cause symptoms.
What is early detection?
or
What is screening?
100
The #1 risk factor for developing breast cancer.
What is being a woman?
100
What is the first step of treatment of breast cancer?
What is surgery?
100
An international symbol of breast cancer awareness.
What is the pink ribbon?
200
See this person regularly to find out about tests to find cancer early.
What is your Healthcare Provider?
200
X-ray pictures that are taken after the breast is compressed.
What is a mammogram?
200
Women over this age are at much greater risk for developing breast cancer.
What is 60?
200
A way of treating breast cancer by removing the entire breast through surgery.
What is a mastectomy?
200
The colors of the ribbon for male breast cancer to signify and acknowledge breast cancer also occurs in men.
What is blue and pink?
300
Adults should get at least 75 to 150 minutes of this – added to their daily activities – every week.
What is moderate to vigorous physical activity?
300
A test that uses radio waves and strong magnets to make detailed pictures of the inside of the breast.
What is a Breast MRI
300
Having two or more of these each day increases the risk of getting breast cancer by about 25%.
What are alcoholic beverages?
300
A treatment process that uses high-energy rays (similar to X-rays) to kill the cancer cells.
What is radiation therapy?
300
The inventor of the pink ribbon for breast cancer.
Who is Charlotte Haley?
400
This is something to consume in moderation to prevent breast cancer.
What is alcohol?
400
Knowing and reporting changes in how the breast feels, a change in how the breast or nipple looks, or if you have nipple discharge.
What is breast self-awareness?
400
If a women used this during or after menopause they are at increased risk of breast cancer.
What is hormone replacement therapy?
400
A treatment process using special medicines to shrink or kill the cancer cells. The drugs can be pills you take or medicines given in your veins, or sometimes both.
What is chemotherapy?
400
The first major distribution of breast cancer awareness ribbons came from this foundation.
What is the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation?
500
Doing this causes lung cancer, is linked to colon cancer, and can worsen outcomes for breast cancer treatment.
What is smoking?
500
"Start breast cancer screening at age 40 instead of the previously recommended starting age of 50. Get screening mammograms every other year from ages 40 to 74."
What are USPSTF’s new Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines?
500
Women can reduce their risk for breast cancer 20% – 37% by doing 30 minutes of this per day.
What is walking or exercise?
500
A side effect of radiation treatment where tissue swells due to build-up of lymph fluid in the body.
What is lymphedema?
500
The breast cancer awareness campaign that formed the largest female human pink ribbon chain.
What is A Woman’s Stand: The Largest Human Pink Ribbon Campaign?