Reply #1: I have worked in health care

[valleywine]

all mhy adult life. I can not immagine stopping education for breast self exams. It is part of my life and for many also. I just shake my head.



The USPSTF panel recommends that women don't need to perform breast self-examinations as part of their routine but the National Breast Cancer Foundation disagrees. Founder Janelle Hall discovered a lump in her breast at the age of 34 through self-examination and a mammogram detected she had breast cancer. She writes on the NBCF website that she "would not be alive today" had she followed the recommendations made by the USPSTF.

Another breast cancer survivor, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, (D), FL., spoke to Chris Matthews of Hardball on MSNBC about detecting a lump in her breast during a self-examination that led her to have a mammogram that detected cancer. She was in a higher risk group for the disease but wasn't aware of the risk until she was diagnosed.
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