National breast cancer awareness month.Announces that October 1995 is National Breast Cancer Awareness month in the United States. National Mammography Day; Availability of information about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program....
Every year on the third Friday in October, National Mammography Day joins in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month to remind all women their best defense is early detection. #NationalMammographyDay Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States according to the CDC. That's wh...
National Folic Acid Awareness Week seeks to spread awareness about the importance of folic acid. The observance takes place every year during the second full week of September. It is especially crucial for pregnant women as folic acid helps to prevent so
During National Cancer Control Month, we celebrate the progress made against this disease, and we reaffirm our national commitment to preventing cancer, improving treatments and the delivery of care, and finding a cure. This includes efforts to improve cancer prevention, promote early detection...
Breast Cancer + Eating Disorders: My Journey of Survival My name is Leah Wypych and I am the Chair of the Board of Directors for The Alliance for Eating… READ MORE July 27, 2020 Special Topics Backing the SERVE Act: Eating Disorder Care in the Military When I started my military ...
7 ways to offer support and Jewish strength to friends or loved ones facing cancer This article was sponsored by and produced in partnership with Sharsheret, the national Jewish breast cancer and ovarian cancer organization. This article was produced by JTA’s native content team. Read more ....
CDC: Center for Disease Control and Prevention CI: Confidence interval EPI: Expanded Programme on Immunization ELISA: Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay EMTCT: Elimination of mother-to-child transmission HBV: Hepatitis B virus HBIG: Hepatitis B immunoglobulin HepB-BD: Hepatitis B birth dose...
“functional”, anxiety, deconditioning), and had likely been missed in some patients. The outcome of this particular quality improvement cycle was thus not a wholescale change in practice (for which the evidence base was weak) but a more subtle increase in clinical awareness, a greater ...
For cancers, the variation in error and harm frequency may have correlated more with public awareness and utilization of screening programs than purely disease incidence. The lowest rate was seen with prostate cancer (2.4%, 1.2%), where frequent screening (even overuse) has generally ...
Introduction: Leptomeningeal metastasis (LM), also known as carcinomatous meningitis refers to the spread of malignant cells through the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) space as a complication of advanced cancer. The most common solid tumors involved are breast and lung cancer, melanoma and gastrointestinal...