Live Your Breast Life!

Breast Cancer is one of the most common cancer diagnosis in women in the United States, but it can be also diagnosed in men. Use the information below as a guide to help you find out more about prevention, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment options, lifestyle management as a breast cancer survivor and giving care to someone with cancer.

Find Out Early-Get Screened! (Prevention)

The goal of screening tests for breast cancer is to find it before it causes symptoms (like a lump that can be felt). Screenings are known as tests and exams used to find a disease in people who don’t have any symptoms. Contact your doctors office to see if you are due for A screening.

Breast self-exams (BSE) are another way to check your own breasts for lumps or other changes. BSE should not take the place of regular clinical breast exams and mammograms.

Click here to do a Self Breast Exam that can be done at home.

Know the Risk Factors

Lower your risks - There is no sure way to prevent breast cancer. But there are things you can do that might lower your risk.

Make movement a priority!
Maintain a healthy body weight
Limit alcohol.

Lifestyle-related - Certain breast cancer risk factors are related to personal behaviors, such as diet and exercise. Other lifestyle-related risk factors include decisions about having children and taking medicines that contain hormones.

Risk factors you can not change - Some risk factors for breast cancer are things you cannot change, such as getting older or inheriting certain gene changes. These make your risk of breast cancer higher.

Diagnosis & Treatment Options

Women who have dense breast tissue have a higher risk of breast cancer compared to women with less dense breast tissue. Dense breast tissue also makes it harder for radiologists to see cancer. On mammograms, dense breast tissue looks white. Breast masses or tumors also look white, so the dense tissue can hide tumors.

Breast Cancer in Men - Men can get breast cancer too. About 1 out of every 100 breast cancers diagnosed in the United States is found in a man. Understand some of the symptoms, risks factors, and treatment options for men.

Treating Breast Cancer - If you have been diagnosed with breast cancer, your cancer care team will discuss your treatment options with you. It’s important that you think carefully about each of your choices. Weigh the benefits of each treatment option against the possible risks and side effects.

Lifestyle Management as a Breast Cancer Survivor

Surviving cancer starts at time you have been diagnosed and continues throughout your life. Download and follow the links below to find out ways to

reduce your risk of breast cancer reoccuring and improve your overall health and wellness.