| ’s Health: Breast Cancer Prevention And | | | | informative. The following section should go a long |
| Treatments | | | | way toward clearing up any uncertainty that may |
| This article addresses some of the key issues | | | | remain. |
| regarding women’s health. A careful | | | | Internationally, breast cancer is the most |
| reading of this material could make a big | | | | prevalent form of cancer impacting |
| difference in how you think about this important | | | | women’s health and is thought to have |
| subject. | | | | affected one out of every 11-12 women at some |
| Women should routinely visit a Gynecologist or | | | | point of their lives in the Western hemisphere, and |
| Obstetrician for pelvic scans or for taking a Pap | | | | although important efforts are being made to |
| smear. This is especially true if they are 21 years | | | | achieve early detection and provide sufficient |
| of age or older. The medical community world | | | | treatment, purportedly about 20% of all women |
| wide on the issue of women’s health has | | | | diagnosed with breast cancer would die as a result |
| made more women aware of the rise of cancer | | | | of this disease. |
| as a grave illness that may lead to death and is | | | | Some common methods of detecting breast |
| second only to heart disease in leading causes of | | | | cancer is to have screening performed which |
| death among women. | | | | includes breast self-examination and |
| Important Facts To Consider | | | | mammography though only the latter has been |
| Women’s health is directly affected by | | | | proven to reduce mortality from breast cancer. |
| cancer which is believed to have been diagnosed | | | | Because of the risk that breast cancer poses to |
| in excess of a million people in the United States, | | | | women’s health, modern technologies |
| though it is a widely known fact that the | | | | such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are |
| development of cancer can be significantly | | | | needed to detect cancers that are not visible |
| reduced by practicing a healthier lifestyle, | | | | through mammography methods. |
| maintaining good nutrition and limiting sun | | | | In addition to cancer, another cause of worry |
| exposure. In addition, cancer screening, a basic | | | | seriously affecting women’s health is |
| understanding of cancer prevention as well as | | | | diabetes, and to fight this disease the National |
| cancer prevention programs would all help to | | | | Public Health Initiative on Diabetes and |
| drastically improve women’s health. | | | | Women’s health have produced a |
| It is believed that women who are 65 years of | | | | television video on diabetes and women’s |
| age or older contribute to half of the new breast | | | | health and this video brings to light the realities |
| cancer cases every year and the number for | | | | facing women which gives hope and |
| older women having breast cancer is expected to | | | | encouragement to women as well as their love |
| double by the year 2030 as the baby boomers | | | | ones in living with diabetes. |
| age. Younger women diagnosed with breast | | | | As your knowledge about women’s health |
| cancer often receive better care than their older | | | | continues to grow, you will begin to see how a |
| counterparts, even though women want their | | | | proper understanding of women’s health is |
| doctors to look at the condition not their ages. | | | | critical in the fight against cancer and other leading |
| I trust that what you've read so far has been | | | | diseases affecting women world wide. |