I was more than a little disturbed to read this article in today's news. Many of you know that I found my tumor by doing a (not-so-regular) self-exam. Mine is an aggressive form of cancer, and apparently had developed and spread in the 5 months since my previous mammogram. Had I not done a self-exam, who knows how much the cancer would have spread in two years.
I was struck by this statement--"In most women, tumors are slow-growing, and that likelihood increases with age." Do you want to be the one woman, like me, whose tumor is fast-growing, and whose tumor goes undiagnosed for a year or two?
Bottom line is --Do self-exams, and get a yearly mammogram. Breast cancer doesn't always happen to someone else.
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