2020 PPP magazine

2020 Paint the Paper Pink Lincoln Daily News October 2020 Page 75 4.) Only women get breast cancer. Answer - False More than 2,500 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Men should not ignore breast lumps and should get any breast changes checked. Still, breast cancer is about 100 times more common in women than men, with more than 260,000 women diagnosed in each year. 5.) Surgery and needle biopsies can cause breast cancer to spread. Answer - False Needle biopsies to diagnose breast cancer do not cause cancer cells to spread to other parts of the body. Nor does exposure to air during breast cancer surgery cause the disease to spread. Sometimes a surgeon does find more cancer than the imaging scans or X-rays showed, but in those cases the cancer was already there. It just hadn’t shown up on tests that were done. 6.) There is nothing you can do to lower your breast cancer risk. Answer - False While you can’t change certain risk factors - like getting older or having a family history of breast cancer - you can do a lot to help reduce your breast cancer risk. Exercise more and eat healthier, especially if you’re overweight or obese. Get to and stay at a healthy weight. And limit or eliminate alcohol. Being responsible about your health can go a long way. [American Cancer Society]