Early Detection and Breast Cancer Statistics
If you take nothing else away from this website, please take the information here on this page with you. It is a call for you to truly understand early detection and breast cancer statistics. It’s more than just knowing about the cause, walking in the walks, supporting “the cure”… those things are awesome. But there is more. There is the reality that YOU NEED TO CHECK YOURSELF!!!Are you doing the things you can do to detect breast cancer early? Do you truly understand this disease, what it is, about the tumors, and about how early detection is the difference between living and dying?You owe it to yourself and those who love you to check yourself and practice all of the early detection methods that you can!!!
As I’ve gone through this process of learning, I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know. And not just that, what I didn’t know was how little everyone around me didn’t know. It’s more than the just supporting the cause, it’s about knowing the disease. It’s more than the big effort to help others, it’s about the day to day things you can do to help yourself. Take care of you, so you can be around to help others.
Look at the statistics again. Understand what they are saying. Really look at them. (graphic) The difference between Stage 2 and Stage 3 is more than 25%. The difference between Stage 1 and Stage 3 is more than 30%. And the difference between Stage 1 and Stage 4 is more than 75%. What does this really mean? Think about it this way… if you were to be diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer, and you were with 49 other people in room, 1 of you might die from breast cancer. If you were diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer, and you were in a room with 3 people, it is possible that 1 of you would die. And if you were diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer, and 5 of you were in a room, it is possible that 4 of you would die. Now, these are just statistics, and not a certain death sentence for people with breast cancer. But if the possibility of these numbers doesn’t motivate you to take 5 minutes each month to
check your boobs
,
meet with your doctor
every year, and get a
mammogram
– then what will it take???
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