Routine care is the best way to keep you and your breasts healthy. Although detecting breast cancer at its earliest stages is the main goal of routine breast care, other benign conditions, such as fibrocystic breasts or cysts, are often discovered during routine care. This is why clinical breast exams are important along with patients having breast "self awareness".
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. One out of 8 women will develop invasive breast cancer at some point in their lives.
If you are diagnosed with breast cancer, the most important thing for you to remember is that help is available. For many, early detection and modern therapy with a combination of surgery, radiation, drugs, or hormones now offer good weapons to help beat the effects of breast cancer.
At UTMB Health, we provide comprehensive care for breast cancer patients. The patient can meet her surgeon, the medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, and plastic surgeon all at the same location, and often all on the same day.
Think Pink 2021 publication available online
If you have questions about breast cancer, check out the new October 2021 edition of Think Pink now available online. This special supplement to The Galveston County Daily News includes UTMB stories about breast cancer prevention, detection and recovery. Meet some of the nurses, doctors and other UTMB Health professionals who listen carefully to their patients. Read about breast cancer survivors who share their journeys from diagnosis to recovery. And while you’re thinking pink, think about getting your mammogram scheduled.