This past year I was fortunate to be chosen as an Albert Schweitzer fellow and was tasked with continuing an established project dedicated to improving the health literacy of underserved women at our ...

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and cancer awareness starts with general breast awareness. Dr. Julie Nangia, medical director of breast oncology at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer ...

0.8 cm Mammograms can detect many other non-invasive cancers (such as DCIS) which are less than 1.0 cm 1 cm Average size of cancer found by women who practice regular breast self-exam. 2.62 cm Average ...

I had breast cancer two times, at 35 and 39. Both times, I found it myself. Both times I had it, I was younger than the age people typically started having mammograms Updated guidelines recommend ...

The point of breast self-awareness is to “know what your breasts normally look and feel like. And if something changes and ...

According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, one out of eight American women will develop breast cancer sometime in their life and it is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Illinois women.

IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, EARLY DETECTION OF SYMPTOMS CAN BE A GAME CHANGER IN TREATING BREAST CANCER. JUST THIS PAST WEEK. BOY MEETS WORLD STAR DANIELLE FISHEL REVEALED. A ROUTINE MAMMOGRAM ...

Tanji Lawson had just had her yearly mammogram when she felt something in her breast in 2022, with her self-examination ...