Breast Cancer Tips

Breast Cancer Tips
Every 3 minutes, a girl is diagnosed with breast cancer. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and fighting the disease could be a cause near OB/GYN Dr. Lisa Masterson's heart, as she lost her mother to it.

Dr. Lisa recently participated within the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, where she joined thousands of alternative girls in their quest for a cure.

"Seventy to eighty percent of girls who return down with breast cancer haven't any known risk factors," says Liz Vaccariello, editor-in-chief of Prevention. "And folks continuously ask, ‘how does one stop breast cancer?' Scientists do not know as a result of they can not study it in girls."

Healthy girls will participate to find a cure for breast cancer by volunteering to be an area of the military of girls breast cancer analysis.

"It's one thing that we tend to healthy girls will do to assist realize the reason for breast cancer," Liz says.

Dr. Lisa says that the most effective way to stop breast cancer is through screenings: early and sometimes. "I walked with a girl [at the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer] who was thirty three years recent and diagnosed with breast cancer, and he or she found it herself," Dr. Lisa reports. "My mother found it herself. Your self breast exam, your clinical breast exam, your mammograms, breast pap smear known as the HALO device -- there are such a big amount of nice screening tools out there."

"To dispel one myth," Dr. Lisa adds, "a heap of individuals suppose that contraception pills really cause breast cancer, and there is been no scientific basis behind that. Also, vitamin D has been shown to be very effective to assist forestall lots of cancers."

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