October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Call us if you have any questions! 1-866-982-3524
Breast
cancer is the most common form of cancer among American women. Awareness Depot
donates 10% to the Komen Foundation to help fight breast cancer. Show your
support with one of our pink products such as pink magnets, pink bracelets, pink
key tags, pink ribbon pins, pink pens, pink stickers, and other pink
merchandise.
Believe it or not, the best time to check for breast cancer is when your breasts feel fine. If you can find breast cancer early, there is a much better chance for survival. Three basic screening methods are used to look for breast cancer: mammograms, clinical breast exams and breast self-exams. Mammography is the best screening method widely available today for finding breast cancer early. However, it is not perfect. Many breast lumps found by these methods turn out not to be cancer, and sometimes a real cancer is missed. But if you do all
the methods regularly (based on your age see below), a problem missed one time may be caught the next. Or one method might find a problem that another does not.Remember, even if you feel healthy now, just being a woman and getting older puts you at risk for breast cancer. Getting checked regularly can put your mind at ease. And finding cancer early could save your life.
Breast Cancer Awareness bracelets, breast cancer awareness pins, breast cancer awareness magnets and breast cancer awareness merchandise is just one way to show your support for breast cancer. We donate 10% of all proceeds of pink products to the Susan G. Komen Foundation to help find a cure for breast cancer.
Age 20-39
clinical breast exam at least every three years
breast self-exam once a month
Age 40 and older
mammogram once a year
clinical breast exam once a year
breast self-exam once a month
For more information, call Susan G. Komen for the Cure at 1-877 GO KOMEN (1-877-465-6636) or visit www.komen.org.