breast cancer awareness month

october 30 2007

Breast cancer awareness month has nearly come to an end.

This your I have been less often bombarded with useless information.

The highlights for me where:

• Research indicates that self-examination doesn't reveal much new cancercases.
• More women choose for double mastectomies to prevent breast cancer.

I was glad that there was much attention for the risk men have to get breastcancer.
I'm curious to hear if the weightcontrolproblems of many men lead to more cases of breastcancer.

Like the years before I have been trying to make teachers aware that when they talk about healthy food and healthy living, they should also inform children that healthcare also means taking part in screenings and doing carefull self-observation.

I still meet women who are afraid to go to a doctor when they feel a lump because they're afraid they'll hear that it's cancer.

It's not about the name, it's about the lump.
Like a friend said: "do you rather die stupid, or live knowing what you're dealing with?"