According to Regional Survey of Public Opinion on Breast Cancer, carried out by the Avon Foundation, One of the barriers that make early detection of this disease impossible is that 79% of women think that self-examination is the most effective method for identification of this disease, so they do not go to the specialist.
Carolina Henao, director of the foundation, said that it is necessary “that more and more women stop saying that when they do self-exploration they are looking for a lump, because although those are the signs, there are also the sinking or the change of tone and texture in the skin “.
What’s more, the study indicates that it is necessary for women to recognize mammography as the most effective method in the detection of breast cancer, since it allows to identify anomalies in the breasts even before the existence of external signs.
More of 3 thousand women die a year from this disease in the country, however, specialists assure that if breast cancer is detected early it could be curable in 98% of cases.
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