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Self-tests, knowledge keys to beating breast cancer
Janine Camara
Issue date: 10/10/06 Section: Campus News
"It's out there," said Dawn White, the speaker for "A Survivor's Story," a lecture held last Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Elliott University Center. The "it" that White speaks of is breast cancer, a disease that kills 44,000 American women annually and at one point threatened White's own life.
White, a wife, mother, and native daughter of North Carolina, has addressed UNCG audiences for the past three to four years concerning her battle with breast cancer as a part of UNCG's Breast Cancer Awareness Week.
Breast Cancer Awareness Week, sponsored annually by the Wellness Center, included White's lecture, information booths in the Atrium and the EUC commons, and an info session called "Breast Cancer - The Basics" on Tuesday evening in the EUC. Sororities Sigma Sigma Sigma and Sigma Gamma Rho co-sponsored Tuesday night's information session.
"Breast cancer is still something that many students need to become aware of," said Jason Robertson, Wellness Coordinator for UNCG's Wellness Center. Robertson also said that the Wellness Center was considering promoting testicular cancer in next year's initiative to appeal to male students. "We just hope students are aware of breast cancer, facts and figures…and are aware of cancer in general."
In the brochure "Cancer Facts for Women," the American Cancer Society (ACS) reports that 180,000 cases of breast cancer will occur this year. According to the brochure early detection is the "best defense" against breast cancer. The ACS's newly modified mammography guidelines state that women "age 40 and over should get annual mammograms." The new guidelines also urge this age group to get clinical breast examinations (CBE) done annually by a nurse or doctor. The ACS advises women between the ages of 20 and 39 to schedule a CBE once every three years, and that all women over 20 perform breast self-examinations monthly.
"Do those self-breast exams," she said to her largely female audience, and later mentioned that she began to exercise regularly as a mode of prevention. White believes her constant use of birth control may have been to blame for her cancer. She had no family history of breast cancer.
White, a wife, mother, and native daughter of North Carolina, has addressed UNCG audiences for the past three to four years concerning her battle with breast cancer as a part of UNCG's Breast Cancer Awareness Week.
Breast Cancer Awareness Week, sponsored annually by the Wellness Center, included White's lecture, information booths in the Atrium and the EUC commons, and an info session called "Breast Cancer - The Basics" on Tuesday evening in the EUC. Sororities Sigma Sigma Sigma and Sigma Gamma Rho co-sponsored Tuesday night's information session.
"Breast cancer is still something that many students need to become aware of," said Jason Robertson, Wellness Coordinator for UNCG's Wellness Center. Robertson also said that the Wellness Center was considering promoting testicular cancer in next year's initiative to appeal to male students. "We just hope students are aware of breast cancer, facts and figures…and are aware of cancer in general."
In the brochure "Cancer Facts for Women," the American Cancer Society (ACS) reports that 180,000 cases of breast cancer will occur this year. According to the brochure early detection is the "best defense" against breast cancer. The ACS's newly modified mammography guidelines state that women "age 40 and over should get annual mammograms." The new guidelines also urge this age group to get clinical breast examinations (CBE) done annually by a nurse or doctor. The ACS advises women between the ages of 20 and 39 to schedule a CBE once every three years, and that all women over 20 perform breast self-examinations monthly.
"Do those self-breast exams," she said to her largely female audience, and later mentioned that she began to exercise regularly as a mode of prevention. White believes her constant use of birth control may have been to blame for her cancer. She had no family history of breast cancer.
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