Host: Good breast health is essential. Statistics tell the story. According to the American Cancer Society, one in eight women will develop breast cancer and in over 70% of breast cancer cases, there is no known family history of the disease, even men get breast cancer. The good news is with early detection, there is hope.
Dr. Charlene P. Holt: Early detection saves lives. I am here because of early detection.
Host: Experts agree early detection starts with monthly home self exams, annual clinical exams, and mammograms, the baseline at age 35 and then annually for women over 40.
Dr. Charlene P. Holt: These augment each other and increase your ability to have early detection and early detection saves lives.
Host: A doctor-recommended product designed to educate you about the easy steps you can take for good breast health. It is durable, reusable, and comes with a one-year warranty. Its patented design has two durable polyurethane layers surrounding a nontoxic environmentally safe fluid. Your fingers moved like smoothly without pulling the skin, so you can feel your natural breast structure. This helps create sensory touch magnification, dramatically increasing your touch sensitivity. It's like having a magnifying glass for your fingertips. A split pea and two grains of rice were used to stimulate lumps in the breast. Passersby were asked to find them.
Speaker: Wow! There it is. I mean, you just find it like band.
Speaker: Oh! definitely. It makes the difference.
Speaker: Oh! there.
Speaker: Oh! Yeah.
Speaker: Oh! It's easier.
Speaker: Oh! Yeah. It's so easy find it, it's right there.
Speaker: It's quite amazing. I was frankly a little skeptical and shall I got to do this demonstration.
Speaker: I mean, it really is amazing how you can feel such a tiny --
Speaker: Tiny little piece, it's a lot better.
Host: A plan that involves both looking and feeling. First, look. Observing you breast for skin dimpling, puckering, or anything that looks different from what is normal for you. Then feel for changes. Lay down with your shoulder propped up and your hand behind your head and use the pads of your middle three fingers to feel. Work in a grid pattern. Don't forget your chest and under your arms. Breast tissue extends here too and be sure to alternate your pressure, first light and then more firm, then firmer still. You could perform a thorough breast self-exam in just minutes a month. You will experience smooth fluid movement across the skin. The exam is performed lying down, which is the same position doctor's use. It requires no messy lotions while delivering increased sensitivity.
Shana L. Charles: You know, it's a five-minute shower. The hot water is running out, so you get out and you don't feel those areas as carefully as you should have.
Connie Shipp: You know, before what you do would be, use soap and the shower, things like that that was supposed to be the best method. This is better than that.
Dr. Darla Klokeid: I have used it myself for a monthly exam and I have really been impressed with how much easier and in some ways less intimidating it is to do a breast exam.
Patricia Buchsel: This is a tool that women use that actually can lead to early detection. There is no down side and the reason that you are doing this is to prolong your life.
Eve Silver: I think it's important to let women know that breast self-exam is critical. So, I was doing regular breast exams and found my own breast cancer. So, being able to do an exam is a way of self-protection.
Speaker: One in eight women will be diagnosed of breast cancer in her lifetime, that is somebody's mother, that is somebody's grandmother, that is somebody's sister. So, if you told eight women, then you potentially saved one woman's life.
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