breast cancer awareness month

More than 20 years ago, while I found volunteering in the clinic of breast cancer screening, and psychological, professional and non-medical, and walking through my fingertips on the body of a stranger. My job was to hand the planning of every woman to Dr. R. , Who is also a volunteer, update the table of test among patients who suffer from the length of crisp new white paper, and will serve as trustee. The turnout was low, the pace is slow - even a beautiful woman walked in with a small skin and thick hair wavy strawberry blond shade hit. Moved stiffly, her knees unwavering, her arms, hands, fingers, curled in odd angles. Revealed that the planned 40 years old, was suffering from arthritis since childhood - and here she felt a lump in her left three weeks ago.

Prevented deficits prevent them from climbing on the table, so raising the Dr. R. Her up and helped her to lie back. As he gently kneaded her breasts are small, he said: "Yes, there's a lump here. You need to do something about it. We must do something about it." And then "Do you mind if this lesson the trainee?"

She agreed, so when I felt, and indiscriminate evil that has taken up residence in the body of this woman that you never set eyes on me before. Was difficult, and the size and shape of nuts, and made firmly behind the nipple. I will never forget how I felt when my finger stumbled over it, such as a finger journeys across the stone in the soft sand, and if I never felt anything like this in my breast, and you will recognize it for what it is, and get help - and in my heart I thank strawberries blonde woman of extraordinary talent for me.

After that, Dr. R. stool pulled him close and spoke gently and openly to a woman, and to identify in the weeks and months ahead will most likely - to mammography, and biopsy, and treatment options, and possible loss of her nipples. Survived the details of this, pray for me. In the eye of my mind I saw my grandmother's dressing-years after her mastectomy, and her apartment as a Council, and the concave area under the arm where lymph nodes were removed cancer-stricken, as if she had taken a big bite of its own. This is what was in store for women red hair? For any woman developing breast cancer? For me?

Fortunately, no. It is the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer a long way since my grandmother's bout with the disease. Biopsies and lumpectomies usually are removed often through the surrounding area aereola, so that breast and very little distortion. Even when the mastectomy is necessary, breast reconstruction can begin in time for the surgery. This is what the funds provided by the much over the past 20 years have resulted in: earlier detection, improved treatment, improved quality of life after diagnosis for a large proportion of women.
October is the month formally to raise awareness of breast cancer, and we hope that we can WVFC be useful to you as the next four weeks with a woman blonde strawberry, faced two decades ago I had - through the provision of information content and practical, and inspiring for the most common cancer among women .

We would also like to hear from you. What do you have stories to share about breast cancer - your own or that of a friend or a family member? What are the questions that you have to breast specialists in the Medical Advisory Board? Please add your voice to ours, share your story, your thoughts and your notes. And inspiration: Check out this exciting sequel to last year's dance pink glove. Enjoy!