Empowered Breast Cancer Prevention

As you are all aware October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so we felt it was fitting to talk today about this cancer but from a different angle. Today we are interested in focusing on Breast Cancer Prevention.Breast cancer  is the second most common cancer and 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with it in their lifetime. Last year there were over 264,000 new cases and over 42,000 deaths. So for every130 newly diagnosed there are 19 deaths.   North Carolina rates are among the highest in the country with  129.7 cases per every 100,00 and 19.4 deaths for ever 100K.  Some good news with all of this: Most of the cases are diagnosed in the early stages (localized 35% or regional 37%) and the incidence has dropped slightly (0.3%) per year.“Breast Cancer Awareness” month was established in 1985 by the American Cancer Society and AstraZeneca the pharmaceutical company responsible for development of Tamoxifen and Arimidex, common treatment agents used in the treatment of breast cancer . The early goal of Breast Cancer Awareness Month was to educate women about breast cancer and early detection tests so that they could take charge of their breast health. One of their key goals that they wanted to achieve was to promote mammograms as an important tool to be used in the fight against breast cancer. This is what we have  been taught is prevention.  While education and screening are important – this is not prevention of disease ; it is prevention of death. There is increasing evidence that suggest lifestyle and dietary factors play a significant role in the prevention of chronic diseases, including cancers like breast cancerToday we want to focus on what is true prevention with the goal of educating andmotivating women to make change and empower them to take an active role in trueprevention of this disease.This podcast uses an AI scribe to convert Thrive's website content into conversational dialogue you can listen to wherever you are!