Yesterday I went for my yearly mammogram. I had a different technologist than previous years. She was a little rough with my breasts and made the experience horrible.
BUT...
I know I have to do this.
The American Cancer Society's most recent estimates for breast cancer in the United States are for 2010:
*About 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women
*About 54,010 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be found (CIS is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer).
*About 39,840 deaths from breast cancer (women)
*Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.
The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is a little less 1 in 8. The chance of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 35. Breast cancer death rates have been going down. This is probably the result of finding the cancer earlier and better treatment. Right now there are more than 2½ million breast cancer survivors in the United States.
http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/index
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=mammo
http://www.checkyourboobies.org/
So ladies, check your boobies!
On the go but makes time to make yummy meals at home w/the kids, hang out with them and chauffeur them to everything from dance class to auditions.
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