| Breast cancer is a disease that strikes women and is | | | | women age, cancer screening visits increase. |
| also the second leading cause of death. According to | | | | The biggest procedure women go through when |
| the American Medical Association and American | | | | they visit their doctors is a mammogram. A |
| Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common | | | | mammogram is used to check the breast to |
| disease for women. Usually breast cancer | | | | determine if any cancer is present. |
| doesnât affect women until they reach their | | | | With all this talk about breast cancer, the number |
| â20s. | | | | question asked is what breast cancer is. Breast |
| Every year millions of women are diagnosed with | | | | cancer is referred to as abnormal cells that somehow |
| breast cancer. It is because of the amount and | | | | have mutated to the point they are no longer normal. |
| frequency of breast cancer screening, this is the | | | | The next question asked is why do women get it? |
| most often sought for office visit among women. As | | | | |