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She found a breast lump. What should happen next?
Individual’s journey to diagnosis.
Welcome to day 3 of our
#BeatingBreastCancer series.
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth 💞1/
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Individual’s journey to diagnosis.
Welcome to day 3 of our
#BeatingBreastCancer series.
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth 💞1/
#thread
Grace was just washing up after exercise class; planning to meet her friends for the party later that night.
As she soaped herself, her mind was busy on other things. #BeatingBreastCancer 💞
#breastcancerawarenessmonth 2/
As she soaped herself, her mind was busy on other things. #BeatingBreastCancer 💞
#breastcancerawarenessmonth 2/
She rubbed under her right breast and under her armpit.
As she circled the breast again, she felt something. She paused, letting the water rinse off the soap.
And pressed her breast - yes, there it was again.
3/
#BeatingBreastCancer
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#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
As she circled the breast again, she felt something. She paused, letting the water rinse off the soap.
And pressed her breast - yes, there it was again.
3/
#BeatingBreastCancer
💞
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
Welcome to Day2 of our #BeatingBreastCancer series.
Today - What’s a #Mammogram?
#thread
Simply, it’s an X-Ray of the breasts used to detect changes in the breast that may indicate cancer.
It’s used as a screening method in some countries... 1/#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth 💞
Today - What’s a #Mammogram?
#thread
Simply, it’s an X-Ray of the breasts used to detect changes in the breast that may indicate cancer.
It’s used as a screening method in some countries... 1/#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth 💞
- that means - before a woman develops ANY signs of cancer, the X-Ray can find breast changes suggesting #BreastCancer.
In the UK, it’s given every 3 years after a woman is 50y till she is 70y.
#BreastCancerAwarnessMonth 💞
#BeatingBreastCancer
Nigeria has no formal program.
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In the UK, it’s given every 3 years after a woman is 50y till she is 70y.
#BreastCancerAwarnessMonth 💞
#BeatingBreastCancer
Nigeria has no formal program.
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There are some other women for whom a #Mammogram is useful for screening outside the age limits and regardless of age, all women are encouraged to continue performing regular self breast examination (BSE) 3/.
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth 💞#BeatingBreastCancer
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth 💞#BeatingBreastCancer
I have been battling a new health crisis since my surgery was postponed June 15.
There is no way to adequately articulate--even as a writer--the breadth of hardship inflicted on sick Americans by the Trump presidency & Trump-led #GOP, like lame-duck @SpeakerRyan.
#healthcare
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There is no way to adequately articulate--even as a writer--the breadth of hardship inflicted on sick Americans by the Trump presidency & Trump-led #GOP, like lame-duck @SpeakerRyan.
#healthcare
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The @CDCgov cites 133M as the number of chronically-ill Americans who have #cancer, like I do, or another illness that impedes their daily lives.
The majority of that 40% of the US population still have to work despite often disabling illness because we cannot afford not to.
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The majority of that 40% of the US population still have to work despite often disabling illness because we cannot afford not to.
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I've been writing about #healthcare in America since I was a cub reporter and put on a small story in the mid-80s that turned into a much bigger story: #AIDS.
When you're in your 20s writing about other 20somethings dying, it changes you.
Then I got #breastcancer at 26.
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When you're in your 20s writing about other 20somethings dying, it changes you.
Then I got #breastcancer at 26.
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Live-tweeting tonight from #UW @fredhutch with Olufunmilayo (Fumni) Olopade, Director Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics @ U of Chicago #breastcancer
Her bio >
cancergenetics.uchicago.edu/directory/oluf…
"Cancer is a Genetic Disease/Disorder" (tonight's topic)
cancergenetics.uchicago.edu/directory/oluf…
"Cancer is a Genetic Disease/Disorder" (tonight's topic)
In the 1960s, no one believed that genetics were involved in cancer. While she was a student, they discovered BCR-ABL1 leukemia
mycancergenome.org/content/diseas…
mycancergenome.org/content/diseas…
