Wednesday 19 June 2013

Breast Cancer Awareness Day 2013 - Breast Cancer Society

Due to rapid pervasiveness of breast cancer society among women, precautionary measures must be taken into account. There are many misconceptions about breast cancer that must be obliterating through creating awareness among people. To achieve this purpose the whole month of October is dedicated to create awareness about breast cancer. On October 18 mammography day will be celebrated in order to make people cognizant about this disease, its types, and treatments.

Misconceptions about breast cancer

The risk factor increases day by day mostly because of the misconceptions about this disease, therefore, to reduce this risk the misconceptions must be corrected first. Most of the people thought that breast cancer is a hereditary disease. Though this disease has some genetic roots but it does not means that if the mother has not develop the breast cancer at any age then the daughter is not exposed to it, but, the truth is that the family history does not matters in case of breast cancer, any female of the family can be suffered with this disease any time of her life.

Breast cancer and age factor

Although after the age of forty the chances of breast cancer increases too many folds, but it does not mean that before forty, a woman cannot be suffered from the breast cancer. After the age of twenty the risk of breast cancer started and a woman may develop it.

Breast cancer and mammography

Although radiations have bad effect on the health and most of the time cancer formation start due to exposure to cancer. But, in case of breast cancer, mammography do not proved to be as much harmful. Mammography on yearly basis helps to diagnose the breast cancer, and if the cancer is detected at its early stages then the survival chances increased.

Mastectomy

After mastectomy, the cancer may appear again, therefore routine checkups are prescribed. Most of the people thought that after five years of mastectomy cancer can never appear again but it is a misconception, cancer may appear again.

The breast cancer society and breast cancer awareness day

There are many other misconceptions regarding breast cancer, and these misconceptions are actually the reason of prevalence of breast cancer. Therefore, the breast cancer society along with helping the suffered ones helps the potential preys of the breast cancer by creating awareness among them. This is done by arranging sessions of seminars. For this purpose, the researchers must be done in this field, so that the fruit of these researches would be helpful for making people conscious about their health. The breast cancer society is funding such types of researches so that the survival rate increased and the risk factor can be cut down and all the women can enjoy healthy life without any risk of developing breast cancer.

The breast cancer society also help the suffered ones through financial aid, on this day of breast cancer awareness, people are also encouraged to help the other, who are the suffered ones, not only with their financial support but also with their moral support. For the cancer patients, blood donation is very substantial; one can donate his blood for good cause so that with your blood anyone living near or far from you can enjoy the life.

Breast cancer day is celebrated each year to support the breast cancer patient and to create awareness among the healthy people. The people who are at the risk of breast cancer must be guided how to live a healthy life, they must be encourage to support and help those, who have been suffered from breast cancer. Although this practice must be continue throughout the year but specifying a day or a month for breast cancer means to high light the alarming situation and making the people aware about its viciousness.

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