Breast Cancer Awareness Month: getting your annual mammogram
Dr. William Burak, director of breast surgery at Memorial Health in Savannah, said Breast Cancer Awareness Month serves as a good reminder for women to go and get their mammograms.
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Dr. William Burak, director of breast surgery at Memorial Health in Savannah, said Breast Cancer Awareness Month serves as a good reminder for women to go and get their mammograms.
Additionally, the american cancer society guidelines no longer recommend a breast exam. >> breast cancer survivors argue it can save lives. sara fort was 42 when a mammogram detected cancer. >> i was doing self-exams, but it -- i didn't find it. so without the mammogram, it would have been another ten months until they clinical exam. i don't know how long -- how large the tumor might have grown. i mean, i probably would have defect detected it, but i don't know weather cancer cells might have gotten into the lymph nodes and the rest of my body. >> joining me now to talk more about these new gu...
We give billions. we give i think about $5 billion to community health centers. that would continue. there are plenty avenues and areas for people to go for women's health care. most of the stuff planned parenthood they do, don't do anyway. they refer you to real doctor. refer you to community health center. mammograms are not really done there. exams are self-exams. if you want a doctor's exam, go to a doctor. really planned fainter hood is about abortion. now we find out it is about the grisly sale of baby organs. i think public is with us. there are some debate over various stages abortion ...
I don't want us to go backwards. we are taking our health into our own hands. >> it is not saying don't be curious, don't ask questions about breast cancer and the risks, if you are a woman in the age group. it is comparing mammography to self-exams. >> shall we talk a little bit? we haven't yet. i kind of wanted to. >> canada is doing well. we want to warn you if you haven't looked at the coverage or you haven't checked your dvr yet. >> on top, norway leading with 12. canada, leads the world in crack-smoking mayors and number two in the medal count with ten. down in third, the netherlands
About to find out why. so are you. november is known as movember for many, where guys worldwide raise awareness and funds for men's health issues. they do it by sporting a stash. dr. siegel, do you think i raised any money when i just wore a moustache? fortunately i cleaned up during the commercial. >> there's no question, people saw that out there. >> give and give generously. >> we talk about prostate cancer on this show a lot. you all know i believe in the psa and prostate screening. but we don't talk about testicular cancer enough. there's 8,000 new cases a year and it's half of it is in m...