SO, WHY ISN’T EVERY
WOMAN ALREADY FOLLOWING THE THREE STEP PLAN?
The simple truth is that MANY WOMEN DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GET STARTED:
A.
What do you need to do?
THE THREE STEP PLAN:
1. BREAST SELF EXAMS
2. CLINICAL BREAST EXAMS
3. MAMMOGRAMS
B.
Who should you ask for help?
1. Health Care Professional
2. Knowledgeable relative or friend
3. American Cancer
Society Phone: 1 ( 800 ) 227-2345
4. National Cancer
Institute Phone: 1 ( 800 ) 4-CANCER
C.
Where should you go?
1. For clinical breast exams
2. For mammograms
D.
When should you start?
1. Breast Self-Exams at age 20
2. Clinical breast exams at age 20
3. Mammograms by age 40
E.
How should you do breast self exams?
1. What to look for?
2. What is normal?
3. What is abnormal?
4. When to phone the doctor?
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that the information presented herein is accurate at the time of publication.
New research is ongoing however, and therefore it is possible that the
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