Breast cancer is one of the leading cancer killers of women.

Approximately one out of nine American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime and more than 44 thousand women die each year from this form of cancer.  Yet almost 90 percent of women who get breast cancer can survive if it’s caught early enough.

You have a higher risk of developing breast cancer, if you:

• are over age 50
• have family members have had breast cancer, especially mothers or sisters
• never had children or were over thirty when they had their first child
• started menstruating early
• experienced late menopause.

While that might sound scary, two thirds of breast cancer cases don’t fall into any of those categories. 

For breast cancer, early detection is still the best strategy.

What you can do?

• lose weight and get fit
• perform a monthly breast self-exam on around the third day of your period is your first line of self-defence 
• have your breasts examined annually by your doctor
• get regular mammograms.

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