Does Breast Cancer Awareness Keep Safe

No longer is breast cancer a death sentence for women.  No longer do women have to necessarily lose a breast to the disease.  New treatments and improved methods of detection have made survival rates for the disease nearly 90 percent.

Another explanation for the increased survival rates has to do with breast cancer awareness.  As more women became educated about the symptoms, detection, treatments and possible prevention of the disease, breast cancer awareness grew.  Education efforts to get women to undergo yearly mammograms also helped the survival rate by catching the disease early. Read More