Patient Education

    Yes, I know Halloween hasn’t come yet, but stay with me here and hopefully this may make some sense.  October is breast cancer awareness month. Some of you might take advantage of the reduced cost mammograms, attend seminars, run in the Race For The Cure, or have no clue at all.  Unlike holidays, which we sometimes prepare for and celebrate, breast cancer is never welcome.  Breast cancer can occur practically at any age past puberty, although certainly women who have gone through menopause make up the majority of patients.  There will be around 200,000 people (yes, men can have breast cancer, too) diagnosed in 1997 in the United States alone, with cancer of the breast.