Promoting Early Detection

Early Detection Saves Lives: Detect. Diagnose. Decide.

Our consumer education campaign is dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of early breast cancer detection. Early detection is critically important, especially for women at higher risk. For Black women who have been diagnosed at the earliest stage of breast cancer when the tumor is small and localized, early diagnosis can make a difference.

Through our consumer campaign, we promote early detection and diagnosis with these steps:

1. Perform a monthly breast self-examination (BSE) and perform it faithfully at the sametime each month.
    
2. See your health care provider for a clinical breast examination (CBE) at least once a year.
    
3. Have regular mammograms. Since breast density is one of the strongest risk factors for Black women developing breast cancer, insist on digital mammography or some of the newer, more advanced technologies that help detect tumors.