Put Breast Health in the Hands of Women
All too often these days whenever we hear the word ‘breast’, the word ‘cancer’ immediately follows. Breast cancer has touched most women’s lives, whether personally or through someone they know.
This is why Best Think Pink works with companies to ensure that their staff have the best breast cancer awareness advice as part of their corporate health and wellbeing programme. Information is presented in a way which inspires women to make changes in their everyday lives and take their breast health into their own hands.
Surprising Facts About Breast Health
Breast Cancer in Developing Countries
By 2020, it is believed that 70% of breast cancer cases will be in developing countries. That is of serious concern because women in developing countries have less access to education, medical resources or community support in a culture that often stigmatizes a woman with a breast disease.
Breast Cancer Rates Are NOT Declining
Despite the billions of pounds which have been spent on research, breast cancer rates are increasing every year.
In the UK 1 in 8 women develop breast cancer during their lifetime. Every six minutes a woman dies from breast cancer in the EU. 35% of women living with breast cancer in the EU are under 55.
For more information, go to www.encr.com.fr
All Women Are At Risk
It’s not just those women with breast cancer in the family or women over 50. In fact, only around 10% of cases are due to genetic inheritance. Breast cancer is more common in women over 50 but nearly 20% of cases are found in women below 50. If you want to know more about the risk factors, Click here to receive more information.
Empowering Women To Take Control of Their Breast Health
The time has come for women to take their breast health into their own hands. Although survival rates continue to improve, there is no cure for breast cancer and there are no statistics for secondary breast cancer, ie when the cancer comes back in a different part of the body. Whilst there are acknowledged risk factors for breast cancer, there are still so many woman (estimated at around 50%) who do not have any of the risk factors and cannot be told why they have the disease.
Early Detection Saves Lives
As with all cancers, early detection does save lives.
In breast cancer there are four stages governed by the size of lump, whether the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes or any other part of the body. It is also worth noting that not all breast cancers involve a lump such as Inflammatory Breast Cancer and Paget’s Disease.
At Stage One, the lump will be less than two centimetres and will not have spread to any other part of the body. If a woman is unlucky enough to get breast cancer, this is the stage she wants to be at. The average size of lump found by a woman who does not check her breasts regularly every month would not be in Stage One.
The average size of lump discovered by a woman who does not check herself regularly is 3.6 cm.
For all the reasons already discussed, all women should be checking their breasts every month and yet most women don’t. This can be for a number of reasons:
- she doesn’t realise that every woman is at risk (Click here to find out the risks)
- she is afraid
- she doesn’t think she has time
- she is afraid she might find something wrong
Breast Self-Examination
So it is clear that it makes total sense for every woman to be checking her breasts every month.
Best Think Pink recommends the use of the Breast Chek Kit, a registered medical device, which enables a woman to check her own breasts with confidence and increased sensitivity.
A Breast Chek Kit consists of two micro-thin layers of polyurethane with a non-toxic lubricant sealed in between. When the Breast Chek is placed on the breast, the bottom layer gently adheres to the skin and remains stable allowing the upper layer to slide freely underneath your fingertips. As the upper layer slides freely over the bottom layer, friction is greatly reduced. This results in what is called, “sensory touch magnification”, or in other words your sense of touch is greatly improved thereby improving the effectiveness of all breast self exams you do as part of your breast health programme.
Breast Chek is highly regarded by medical professionals. Of those 3,126 surveyed over 99% said they would recommend it to their patients.
The Breast Chek Kit can be purchased from Nikki Mattei at Best Think Pink, and is offered for sale at all Best Think Pink Presentations
A Tailor-Made Breast Health Programme
Best Think Pink works with companies to put together a tailor-made breast health programme for their female staff as part of a corporate health and wellbeing programme. Staff will be empowered through information on breast cancer awareness and given practical advice on how to make changes in their everyday lives to help to keep their breasts healthy. Best Think Pink can also advise on access to state-of-the art breast screening suitable for women of all ages not just those over 50.
The information in this website has been compiled by Nikki Mattei and has been sourced using the internet and other resources. The opinions expressed are not intended as medical advice and should be used for information purposes only. Anyone requiring further details on any of the contents, should contact Nikki Mattei on 07814 504755 or email her at nikki@bestthinkpink.com
