When is think pink day 2018

Established in , Nor-Cal Think Pink is a community effort to promote breast cancer awareness. It is our hope that through advocacy and outreach education with our surrounding Northern California communities Shasta, Siskiyou, Modoc, Tehama, and Trinity , women will recognize the importance of annual mammograms, monthly breast self exams, and other early detection tools.

We invite you to join us in our mission by supporting Think Pink and helping to spread the word about the importance of early detection. It is the hope of Think Pink to secure donations from local businesses and individuals as well as grant money to continue to educate women and men about the importance of breast cancer awareness, annual mammograms and self breast exams.

Email Updates:. Click here to view all 35 "Think Pink" community bag sites in Redding. Then join us in the evening as we light the Sundial Bridge in Pink once again to further raise breast cancer awareness! The Bridget will be lit the entire evening pmpm with educational speakers every half hour at the North Side of the Bridge plus music all evening.

Breast health education booths will also be on hand to answer all your questions. Simply dress in pink and post photo of your costume on Instagram using hashtag pinkpubcrawl. Only about 5 to 10 percent of all breast cancers appear to develop directly from gene defects — such as those in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene — passed on from a parent. Some women who are at high risk for getting breast cancer opt to have both breasts removed to avoid the disease.

A preventive mastectomy can, in fact, reduce the risk of developing breast cancer by 90 percent or more. Dense breasts are a risk. Women with dense breasts — breasts with more fibrous and glandular tissue and less fatty tissue — have up to twice the risk of breast cancer as a woman with average breast density.

Dense breasts may also make mammograms less accurate. If the answer is yes, the two of you can discuss whether you need additional imaging tests, such as an ultrasound or MRI. Many studies indicate that breast cancer is less common in countries where the typical diet is low in fat.

Be active. Aim for minutes of moderateintensity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity each week. A new lump or mass is the most common symptom of breast cancer. Stay alert Being familiar with how your breasts look and feel is a key component of breast health. Any of these signs and symptoms,. What happens next? If you have a lump or breast change, your doctor will examine your breasts.

He or she may also order tests to take a closer look. To schedule a breast exam, mammogram or other cancer screening on the mobile medical coach, call Sources: U.

Because breast cancer can develop even with these precautions, the U. Preventive Services Task Force advises women at average risk of breast cancer to have mammograms starting at age Some women may choose to be screened earlier based on family history, personal preference and insurance coverage. Discuss the recommendations with your provider. As of yet, there is no sure way to prevent breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in this country.

Even so, there are clear steps women can take to reduce their risk. And October, which is nationally recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, is the ideal time to take them. Priyanka Sharma. Triple-negative breast cancer is the rarest and most aggressive form of the disease, affecting only about 15 percent of all breast cancer patients. Overall, breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women in.

A person faced with an illness often hopes for a definitive test that can reveal the medical issue and lead to treatment and a cure.

What it is About 70 percent of breast cancers grow in response to estrogen or progesterone hormones. About 15 percent of breast cancers are HER2-positive. Triple-positive breast cancers occur when cancer cells test positive for estrogen and progesterone receptors as well as HER2 protein. Triple-negative breast cancers test negative for all three.

Other ways triple-negative breast cancers stand out are that they grow faster, are more likely to return after treatment with a poorer prognosis, and are more likely to affect women before ages 40 or Treatment requires a more tailored approach, and patients may benefit. To gather more information about the disease and what causes it, Sharma created a triple-negative breast cancer registry in Within the umbrella of triple-negative breast cancer, Sharma believes subtypes exist.

Once these are better understood, specific treatments can be created based on what is best for each woman, Sharma said. In other words, there is no single triple-negative breast cancer.

There are instead many different diseases in this subtype that may each require different, targeted drugs. Additionally, there is hope for using immunotherapy-based combinations, such as with chemotherapy, he said. Gene mutations that contribute to risk can also signal prostate, pancreatic cancers By Melissa Erickson More Content Now.

In particular, males who carry BRCA2 mutations are at increased risk of often early and more aggressive prostate cancers. The same is true for men, although few men undergo genetic testing. It may be the first national study analyzing the rates of genetic cancer testing for both men and women, Childers said. The Childerses are married. Other factors that may indicate a high probability of carrying a mutation include a personal history of male breast cancer, pancreatic cancer or high-grade or metastatic prostate cancer, Kimberly Childers said.

Men with a BRCA mutation are recommended to undergo clinical breast exams every year starting at age 35, Christopher Childers said. Most but not all breast cancers in BRCA-positive men occur after age Starting at 45, men with BRCA mutations are often recommended to undergo prostate cancer screening prostate-specific antigen and digital rectal exams , Christopher Childers said. If men are concerned about their risk they should discuss it with a primary-care provider or genetic counselor.

To find a local genetic counselor, visit nsgc. A June study sponsored by the University of Michigan from a multicenter research consortium aims to help breast cancer patients make decisions about breast reconstruction while armed with the facts about the risks and rewards associated with different surgical options.

The study, published in JAMA Surgery, followed 2, women who had breast reconstruction surgery and tracked their outcomes for two or more years to compare the most commonly used techniques, risks and complications for reconstruction. Breast reconstruction after a mastectomy is associated with significant quality of life benefits. However, like all health-care interventions it has pros and cons, said Dr.

Edwin Wilkins, professor and researcher at Michigan Medicine who was involved in the study. There is no right answer to which is the best type of breast reconstruction surgery, said Dr. Andrea Pusic, chief of plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery at Brigham and. Myriad choices The Mastectomy Reconstruction Outcomes Consortium study provides women with valuable yet complicated and contradictory information, Wilkins said. There are trade-offs to whatever option a woman chooses. For example, women who had flap natural tissue reconstruction were twice as likely to experience some sort of complication within two years, but the failure rate was among the lowest, Wilkins said.

Women who made this choice were significantly more satisfied with their breasts and breast-related quality of life two or more years after surgery than those who had implants. Some of these women reported feeling even more satisfied than their pre-surgery baselines, but others said tightness and pain in the abdominal wall persisted for years after surgery.

Breast reconstruction surgery has come a long way, Pusic said. In the past surgeons needed to take away more muscle, but now the standard is to disturb less for better outcomes. About 40 percent of women who undergo a mastectomy have breast reconstruction surgery, according to data released last year by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Both have risks and benefits. A 33 percent complication risk does sound high, but the complication rate for mastectomy alone is 20 percent, Wilkins said. While complications are common, failure is not, Wilkins said. The goal is to help women understand the pros and cons, to know they have choices and to recognize their options, she said.

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