Breast Cancer Awareness Travel Tag Geocoin

The mission for this trackable is to share the Breast Cancer Awareness. And the key to winning the battle is Early Detection!! So please keep it going! I would love to see it travel to each State and then maybe wind up close to my home town again after visiting each State! So let's get it going and see where it can go and then maybe one day it will come back to Farmington, MO to start all over again!! Let's cache out Breast Cancer!!

The importance of finding breast cancer early
The goal of screening exams for early breast cancer detection is to find cancers before they start to cause symptoms. Screening refers to tests and exams used to find a disease, such as cancer, in people who do not have any symptoms. Early detection means using an approach that allows earlier diagnosis of breast cancer than otherwise might have occurred.

Breast cancers that are found because they are causing symptoms tend to be larger and are more likely to have already spread beyond the breast. In contrast, breast cancers found during screening exams are more likely to be smaller and still confined to the breast. The size of a breast cancer and how far it has spread are some of the most important factors in predicting the prognosis (outlook) of a woman with this disease.

Most doctors feel that early detection tests for breast cancer save many thousands of lives each year, and that many more lives could be saved if even more women and their health care providers took advantage of these tests. Following the American Cancer Society's guidelines for the early detection of breast cancer improves the chances that breast cancer can be diagnosed at an early stage and treated successfully.