Health Center promotes self-examinations

Based on this research, two gynecological health organizations, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Association for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology,

Breast cancer has a higher cure rate if caught during early stages, frequently without removal of the breast recommended that clinicians not teach self breast exams, Benne said. But both clinicians’ experiences stand as testimony to the contrary.

“I know a lot of people who have found their own breast lumps,” Sargent said.

“I can count on both hands the number of women I know that found their own breast lumps,” Benne said in agreement.

“We don’t agree with them, and we don’t follow them,” Benne said.

Both clinicians believe in the power of health education and a woman’s right to know her own body.

“There is nothing wrong with teaching a woman about her body,” Benne said.

“Why not teach them how to perform a free breast exam?” Sargent said.

With the standard age of a first mammogram increasing, women who have a family history of breast cancer

From the age of 20, females should perform monthly self-examinations and seek professional health may have to pay for mammograms at a younger age, Sargent said.

Breast cancer diagnosed at a younger age is often more aggressive and dangerous than a diagnosis later in life, giving young women reason to stay vigilant in their self examinations, both clinicians said. and should start mammograms 10 years prior to the family member’s diagnosis, Sargent said.

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Proper education and familiarity with a woman’s own body is paramount to an accurate self breast exam, Benne said.

“I haven’t been directly affected by breast cancer, but I have known a few people that have suffered from breast cancer,” Tynisha Lewis, a first year broadcast journalism major, said. “I get examined and stay pretty up to date with it.”

Mammography screening should begin at age 40 and be scheduled at least once every two years, unless otherwise advised by a health care professional.

“It’s a visual exam as well as a feeling exam” Benne said.

Around age 20, young women should start self breast exams as they begin to get to know their bodies, and exams are best performed every couple months seven to 10 days after the first day of a woman’s period, Sargent said.

Women with family history of breast cancer have higher risk for it