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Information about maintaining healthy breasts and prevention of breast cancer, fibrocystic breasts, and other breast conditions.

Understanding Breast Cancer Risk

A medical geneticist helps you sort through the confusion about your true risk of breast cancer. Learn why the 1 in 9 statistic is misleading, how hormone replacement therapy influences breast cancer risk, and about the risk of inheredited breast cancer.

What To Do If You Find A Breast Lump

Discover what to do if you find a breast lump. Learn what breast lumps and other changes including nipple discharges mean.

Breast Cancer and Oral Contraceptives

Do oral contraceptives increase your risk of breast cancer? Learn about studies of women who used birth control pills and subsequent breast cancer diagnosis.

Breast Cancer Facts

A list of breast cancer facts that you probably don't know about. Are you at risk of developing breast cancer?

Mammography Screening

A mammogram is an x-ray of the breast and surrounding tissues which can effectively detect cancers long before you might feel a change during your monthly breast self- exam. Discover the answers to your questions about mammography.

How to Perform a Breast Self Exam

One out of eight women are at risk of developing breast cancer over their lifetime. Monthly breast self exam is one part of total breast care that includes annual physican exams and mammograms after age forty. Use these simple steps to perform a proper monthly breast self exam.

Understanding Benign Breast Changes

Over her lifetime, a woman can encounter a broad variety of breast conditions. These include normal changes that occur during the menstrual cycle as well as several types of benign lumps.

Fibrocystic Breasts - Lumps, Bumps, and Pain

Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of this non-cancerous and common breast condition.
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