31 Myths and Truths
WARNING: Hearing the truth about breast cancer may surprise you. And it should motivate you.
It’s time to move beyond awareness to action. It’s time to peel back the pink to see what’s really happening in breast cancer research, treatment, prevention and cure.
Our breast cancer myths and truths are backed by science, documented by credible and trusted sources and chosen because they are often misunderstood by or misrepresented to the general public.
We challenge you to become educated, speak up on behalf of women and men everywhere and take action to end this disease. We also call on you to help usspread this message to people you know: friends, family, coworkers, anyone who cares about ending breast cancer.
We will show you the way and give you the tools to get involved and make a difference.
Please join us.
Our breast cancer myths and truths are backed by science, documented by credible and trusted sources and chosen because they are often misunderstood by or misrepresented to the general public.
We challenge you to become educated, speak up on behalf of women and men everywhere and take action to end this disease. We also call on you to help usspread this message to people you know: friends, family, coworkers, anyone who cares about ending breast cancer.
We will show you the way and give you the tools to get involved and make a difference.
Please join us.
31 Myths and Truths
- Myth #1: Monthly breast self-exams save lives
- Myth #2: Mammograms can only help and not harm you
- Myth #3: MRI is better than mammography because it finds more cancer
- Truth #4: When breast cancer shows up on a mammogram, it may have been in your body for 6-10 years
- Truth #5: Breast cancer mortality rates are declining
- Myth #6: Mammograms prevent breast cancer
- Truth #7: We don’t know how to prevent breast cancer
- Myth #8: Most women with breast cancer have a family history of the disease
- Myth #9: Men don’t get breast cancer
- Truth #10: Risk of breast cancer increases with age; 50% of breast cancer occurs among women aged 62 years or older
- Truth #11: Most people think they have a higher risk of breast cancer than they actually do
- Myth #12: Everyone's breast cancer is the same
- Myth #13: Everyone who has a positive BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 test result will get breast cancer
- Truth #14: The mortality rate from breast cancer is higher for African American women than for Caucasian women
- Myth #15: In terms of survival, removing the entire breast is better than just cutting the cancer out and getting radiation
- Myth #16: There are drugs that can prevent breast cancer
- Myth #17: Once diagnosed with breast cancer, it’s very important to make treatment decisions immediately
- Myth #18: Second opinions are only for treatment options. Once I know I have breast cancer, I can get a second opinion on how to treat the disease
- Truth #19: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increases your risk of breast cancer
- Myth #20: With new treatments we can now cure breast cancer
- Truth #21: You should question your doctor
- Myth #22: If I am not a scientist, then I won’t be able to understand breast cancer research
- Truth #23: Your tax dollars fund a significant amount of breast cancer research
- Myth #24: My Senators and Members of Congress have no role in what happens in breast cancer
- Myth #25: The media accurately reports breast cancer science
- Myth #26: All breast cancer research is good because it moves us toward prevention and a cure
- Myth #27: Breast cancer survivors are too close to the issue to participate in how research money is spent
- Truth #28: Less than 3% of adult cancer patients participate in clinical trials
- Truth #29: I can educate myself
- Truth #30: I can influence what happens in Washington D.C. about breast cancer
- Truth #31: I can make a difference
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