This October, add Breast Cancer Awareness Month to your calendar, and ask your provider if it’s time for your mammogram. Here’s what you need to know about this potentially life-saving screening.
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month Kristina Mirabeau-Beale, mD, MPH, and Bridget Koontz, MD, discuss the different types of breast cancer that clinicians need to be aware of. Despite advancements in screening and early detection, the annual number of new breast cancer cases in the United ...
3 reasons behind the rise in breast cancer, including some you can control Black women at higher risk of death from all types of breast cancer, study finds In: Breast Cancer Awareness Month Breast Cancer Michael George Michael George is a correspondent for CBS Newspath based in New York...
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, aiming to bring awareness to childhood cancer's unique symptoms and presentations. Regardless of a child’s age, they can contract many of the same types of cancer as adults, so knowing how to catch symptoms early, get childhood cancer diagnosed, a...
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October is many things: Breast Cancer Awareness Month, World Menopause Month, and even “spooky season,” if you’re one of those people who celebrates Halloween all month. But did you know it’s also National Disability Employment Awareness Month? NDEAM is meant to better educate Americans ab...
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April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about testicular cancer. Compared with other types of cancer, testicular cancer is rare. But testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men in the U.S. between the ages of 15 and 35. ...
Childhood cancer rates have been rising slightly for the past few decades, and about 10,470 children in the U.S. under the age of 15 will be diagnosed with cancer in 2022, according to the American Cancer Society. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time...
Did you know June isCancer Immunotherapy Research Awareness Month? This year, we’ll celebrate 10 years since cancer immunotherapy was recognized as the “breakthrough of the year”by Science magazinein 2013. Over 30 cancers are treatable with immunotherapy and thegoal of the awareness monthis to...