According to the World Health Organization Breast Cancer is the most common cancer among women. While there are hundreds of thousands of deaths from breast cancer a year, there are approximately 3.5 million survivors in the Unites States. The death rate from breast cancer has been declining since the early 1990s largely due to the early detection and improved treatment. Women should perform self-breast examinations to detect changes as early as possible. Consult your healthcare professionals if you notice anything unusual. Most often symptoms do not mean you have breast cancer, there can be many explanations for changes. Just like there are many risk factors to getting breast cancer. Some are controllable such as alcohol intake and others such as genetic factors are uncontrollable. For more information about breast cancer, visit www.nationalbreastcancer.org.
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