Breast cancer doesn’t discriminate so it’s important to learn about your personal risk. Talk with your family to learn about the history of breast cancer in your family.  This will help you talk with your health care provider about your personal risk.

Getting tested regularly for breast cancer is the best way for a woman to lower her risk of dying from the disease. See your healthcare provider regularly and ask what screening tests are right for you.

After all, screening tests can find breast cancer early, when it's most treatable.

Overall, mammography is still the most effective screening tool for breast cancer today.

To become more aware of your breasts, you can practice breast self-exams once a month. It’s a tool women can use to become familiar with the way their breasts look and feel normally so they can recognize changes such as thickening, lumps, spontaneous nipple discharge or skin changes, such as dimpling or puckering – and report any changes they might find to their health care providers immediately.

In the past two decades, great improvements have been made in the treatment of breast cancer. As a result there are more than 2 million survivors in the U.S. today!

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