breast cancer awareness..

so here i am in class, waiting for the lecturer to come to start our Problem Based Learning session.....there's 8 people in the discussion room and i can't help noticing that 3 out of 8 person in this room is sick...conjunctivitis, flu and flu +cough....lolz...~~ 

i used to have a notion that doctors wont get sick...yes i know that is a silly assumption to make but seriusly they know everything about all diseases that they are smart enuf to avoid it..rite?? well i guess im wrong.. so conclusion is that even doctors get sick.. med students are no exception either... ;p

mental note to myself, drink plenty of water, eat lotsa fruits and vegetables and exercise..lolz!! i try la..haha..

soo...eventually the lecturer came while we were discussing about contraceptive pills and apparently there is an association between taking oral contraceptives with breast cancer risk if taken for a long period of time..it is 0.5 higher out of 10000 women age 16-19 and 4.7 higher out of 10000 women age 25-29..lolz..

so he was asking us should we recommend oral contraceptive since there is a mild association of it with breast cancer...and i think that there is always a good and negative impact when taking a certain kind of drugs..even the usual common antibiotics have some side effects (nausea and vomiting).. it is the individual's perrogative to take it or not right?? 

anyway, since breast cancer statistics are rising , i think that women should go for screening to detect whether there is any abnormalities or changes of the breast..early detection of any breast lump leads to good prognosis. do recommend your mothers or aunties to undergo mammography screening regularly or annually....

here i include breast self examination technique.. prevention is better than cure people...so try it!!!

link: http://www.stevens-tech.edu/womensresources/resources/Breast%20Self%20Exam.JPG

spread the info!!

-ane-