Breast Health

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• The risks for breast cancer
• How to perform a self breast examination
• Self breast examination: will I know if something is abnormal?
• Fibrocystic breasts: what does that mean?
• The role of heredity in breast cancer
• Early detection of breast disease
• Breast cancer status report
• The key is early detection
• Benefits of Screening Mammography
• Who benefits from screening mammography?
• Determining risk for breast cancer
• Limitations of screening mammography
• False negative mammograms
• False positive mammograms
• Increased cases of ductal carcinoma in site (DCIS)
• Mammograms - the procedure
• "Reading" a mammogram
• Calcifications
• Reporting the results
• Breast implants and mammography
• Choosing a mammography location
• Assuring high quality mammography
• Schedule a regular mammogram
• Clinical breast exam
• Breast ultrasound
• CT scanning
• Research on breast imaging and cancer detection
• Gene testing for breast cancer
• Breast lumps and other changes
• Types of benign breast changes
• Solitary lumps and cysts
• Fibroadenomas
• Fat necrosis
• Sclerosing adenosis
• Nipple discharge
• Breast infection or inflammation
• Benign breast conditions and the risk for breast cancer
• If you find a lump
• Clinical evaluation of a breast lump
• Aspirating a cyst
• Types of breast biopsy
• Deciding to biopsy
• Caffeine and breast disease
• Antiperspirants and breast cancer
• Breast cancer questions for your doctor