Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month

• For the CURE
• Thanks to the Susan G. Komen Foundation

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Statistics

• 178,480 new invasive cases and 40,460 deaths
  estimated for women in 07
• Less than 5 of cases occur in women under 40
• Occurs in 1 of every 3,000 pregnancies
• 2,030 new cases and 450 deaths estimated for men
  in 07
• 124 women in every 100,000 are diagnosed every
  year

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Risk Factors

• Being female
• Getting older
• Family history
• Genetics
• Having children after 30
• Overweight
• High socioeconomic status

• Drinking alcohol
• Not exercising
• Having first period before 12
• Current/recent use of birth control pills
• Being tall
• Not breastfeeding

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FAQs and Myths

• Yes, healthy diet and exercise can reduce risk
• Yes, drinking alcohol increases risk when
  consumed in excess
• No, large breasts do not increase risk
• Yes, using birth control pills for more than five
  years increases risk
• Yes, being overweight postmenopause increases
  risk
• Yes, being slightly overweight premenopause
  reduces risk somewhat

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Tests and Early Screening

• Mammography
• Every year beginning at 40
• Clinical Breast Exam
• Every 3 years 20-39, every year 40
• Breast Self-Exam
• Every month beginning at 20

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Breast Self-Examination

• Perform at the same time every month
• Check for changes when lying down, in the shower,
  and in the mirror
• Know what is normal for you

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What is Breast Cancer?

• Genes mutate and miscode
• Cells gone bad multiply rapidly
• Tumors form
• Benign not cancerous
• Malignant cancerous

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Treatments

• Surgery
• Lumpectomy vs. mastectomy aka partial vs.
  whole
• Radiation
• High energy x-rays, always coupled with surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Anticancer drugs used after radiation and surgery
• Hormonal therapies
• Prevents release of hormones that make tumors
  grow
• Targeted therapies
• Attack specific molecules in cancer process

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Learn More

• Susan G. Komen Foundation
• cms.komen.org/Komen/index.htm
• National Breast Cancer Foundation
• www.nationalbreastcancer.org/
• National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• www.nbcam.com/

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If You Use This

• Hey there! Hope you liked the bulletin board.
  If you do use this, please let me know, just for
  fun. ?
• Shawna, Colorado State Univ. RA in Edwards Hall
• slstrick_at_holly.colostate.edu
• Thanks and enjoy!