Early detected breast cancer is easier and better to be cured
of for women who are facing and suffering from the disease and at the Get In
Touch Foundation, an organization in Los Angeles is promoting self-breast exams
for women and regular medical checks for the first step treatment. However,
according to the medical experts, it is quite difficult to get the message at
the starting of disease.
The finding shows that in industrial countries like the
United States have many more people with breast cancer when comparing with
other places like African countries. The world Health Organization says that it
may partly because of differences in diet and lifestyle of them. However,
nowadays in the developing countries its rate has been rapidly increasing and
in the civilized countries the much higher rate of survive is better as the
early detection and treatment have been performed.
Mary Ann Wasil is one of the breast cancer survivors who is at
an inner city high school is talking about the disease and health. She says
some of the students have had family members with this kind of disease, but
most know little about it. A small instructional device was designed for them.
It is in the shape of the flower that teaches them how to do self-exams and
encourages medical screenings if they find anything abnormal with their breast.
Though the risk is low now among them, it can rise as they get older.
For Wasil, she was diagnosed with breast cancer about 10
years ago and at that time she was 39. Then her son had just 10 and two
daughters were 12 and 13 years old she said “I looked at them and I thought
that I never had a family history of breast cancer, but now that is not true
for them.
A family history of disease raises the risk, so she tries to
educate her loved ones about breast cancer and led to this education program
which now expands into 26 countries.
Not only the general woman like Wasil but the actress like
Angelina Jolie is paying attention to the condition of this disease after she
revealed last year that she have had both breasts removed in a double
mastectomy from learning that a rare genetic mutation and her family history
left her at high risk of this disease. Rob Lowe, an actor who lost his mother
and grandmother to breast cancer is also performing the activities in spreading
the message about early detection. Dr. Funk and his team were honored by the
Get in Touch Foundation at its annual luncheon in Los Angeles.
For May Ann Wasil, she now is undergoing treatment for a
recurrence of her breast cancer and she says she has never felt more alive, and
is sending the message that this disease
can be beaten.
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