BREAST HEALTH/BREAST CANCER CLINICS

Our Breast Health/Breast Cancer Clinics provide people with knowledge to help them lower their risk of breast cancer. in a warm, comfortable setting of your choosing, our registered nurses will educate your staff or clients on cancer’s risk factors and symptoms, ways to reduce risk, and community resources to help them.

Vigilance, education and early detection are the best tools to beat breast cancer.

Facts about breast cancer:

• Breast cancer starts in breast tissue which consists of tissue from the armpit to the breast bone & extending up to the collar bone
  
• Cancerous breast tissue tends to present as a hard mass in the breast and is painless, although there are exceptions to this.
  
• Less than 10% of breast cancers are hereditary
  
• Breast cancer occurs almost exclusively in women with less than a 1% rate of occurrence in men. It is more common after the age of 50
  
• Breast cancer can take many forms-prognosis & treatment options vary depending on the type with ductal carcinoma being the most common

Signs and symptoms of possible breast cancer:

• Lump in the breast or underarm
  
• Changes in the breast size or shape
  
• Changes in the skin of the breast or nipple
  
• Discharge or bleeding from the breast or nipple

Topics covered during this clinic:

• Risk Factors and Facts: lifestyle, family history, environment
  
• Triad Approach: mammography, breast self-examination and clinical examination
  
• What are the Symptoms
  
• Early Detection and Risk Reduction
  
• Community Resources