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Signs You’re Wearing The Wrong Bra
There is one more thing you can do to help improve and maintain your breast health and it has to do with the undergarment that you choose to wear each day – your bra! Years ago I walked into a lingerie store to kill some time while my daughter was at a tea house birthday party next door. The ladies working at the shop asked if I had been sized recently to which I remarked “I don’t think I’ve been sized since high school.” I think I had guessed which size I was during and after my pregnancy, but never took the time to get properly…
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Fastest Woman Alive :: Carmelita Jeter Supports the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
Most of us have been affected in some form or another by cancer directly or had friends and family members affected. My mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the young age of 48 and I saw firsthand what a person fighting for their life looks like. The fear and pain that they have to go through is tremendous and it takes a community of caring people to help get them through it. The Susan G. Komen organization has been around since 1982 and was created by Nancy G. Brinker as a promise to her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would continue the fight to end breast cancer. Today, with over 120…
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New Options Available in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
Image courtesy of Flickr The only option women have had for the past 45 years to check the health of their breasts is the screening mammogram. Our doctors or friends didn’t really explain anything about the mammogram just that it was used to find breast cancer. As I started to investigate the mammogram I discovered that there were some inconsistencies. I was not going to trust my chances of finding breast cancer to a technology that was inaccurate. Here are three facts I discovered: 1) only the breast tissue that “hangs off” the chest can be seen in the mammogram film, missing the upper outer quadrants of the…
