Breast Cancer
The second leading cause of death in the U.S
What is cancer.
True or False: 80% of women with breast cancer has no family history.
True
How often should you perform a self examination of your breasts?
Monthly. It is recommend for individuals to get into the habits of doing a self-breast exam once a month, in order to familiarize yourselves with the looks and feels of your breast.
Does breast lump mean cancer?.
Around 80 percent of breast lumps are actually begin as tumors or cysts.
True or false, breast cancer develops in the breast.
True
A cancer that forms in the cells of the breast. It the most common cancer diagnosed in women.
Breast Cancer
True or False:Finding breast cancer early gives you more treatment options and increases your chance for survival.
True. Finding and treating breast cancer in the early stages allows many women to be cured.
What is the recommend age for individuals to receive a Mammogram?
Age 40
Do men get breast cancer?
True. It is estimated that about 2,190 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 410 will die each year.
breast inflammation like swelling and redness, which is caused by cancer cells blocking lymph vessels in the skin causing the breast to look "inflamed."
Inflammatory breast cancer
is an X-ray of the breast ( For many women, mammograms are the best way to find breast cancer early.)
Mammogram
True or False: An increase in age increase your chance of being at risk for breast cancer.
True. As you get older your risk of getting Breast Cancer.
Maintaining a healthy weight through diet and exercising. As well as limit your Alcohol intake.
Lower your risk of breast cancer.
Is it true that if you've had a family member who had cancer before, you will get it?
False. Women who have a family history do have a higher risk of getting it, but only about 10% of individuals with breast cancer have a family history.
a breast disease that may lead to invasive breast cancer. The cancer cells are only in the lining of the ducts, and have not spread to other tissues in the breast.
Ductal carcinoma in situ
A breast lump or thickening that feels different from the surrounding tissue.
Change in the size, shape, or appearance of the breast
Changes to skin over the breast such as dimpling
A newly inverted nipples
Symptoms of breast cancer
False, Although it is rare, Men can get breast cancer According to the CDC 1 out of every 100 breast cancer diagnosed in the US is found in a man.
How often should I receive a clinical breast exam?
annually
Breast cancers always come in lumps, true or false, if true give 2 examples of other signs.
False. Swelling, irritation, dimpling, and other abnormalities can all signal breast cancer
It is cancer cells traveling to other parts of the body and damaging other tissues and organs.
What is metastasis?
Are more likely to die from breast cancer.
Black women
True or False. Self Examinations and Mammograms are the Solution to Breast Cancer
False. Early detection and treatment is key for breast cancer survival. Yet most survey respondents placed too much faith in self-examinations and mammograms . Mammograms are among the best diagnostic tools we have, but they are imperfect, revealing too many false positives and thus leading to worry and to unnecessary procedures. Mammograms also miss a surprising number of real, malignant cancers.
This activities with newborns and infants is recommend by health professionals to lower the risk of breast cancer.
Breast feeding
True or false:Wearing a bra can cause breast cancer.
Fasle
The cancer cells begin in the ducts and then grow outside the ducts into other parts of the breast tissue. Invasive cancer cells can also spread, or metastasize, to other parts of the body.
invasive ductal carcinoma