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Myths about breast cancer
MILPARK – As breast cancer is the number one cause of death in women with different types of cancers’, numerous myths have come up about the disease. Here, we separate fact from fiction.
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You have probably seen and heard a lot about breast cancer during the past few weeks, but as we approach the end of this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Louise Turner – breast cancer survivor and project director at the Breast Health Foundation – reckons this is a good time to ask how much of the information you encountered is actually true.
Turner was the guest speaker in Milpark during a University of Johannesburg Resolution Circle initiative.
She educated attendees about how to perform breast cancer exams and shared some light on a few breast cancer myths.
Here are 10 untrue myths about breast cancer
- Putting a cellphone in your bra may cause breast cancer
- Putting money in your bra may cause breast cancer
- A breast injury in most occasions develops into breast cancer
- Breast cancer always appears as a lump
- Young women do not get breast cancer
- Small-chested women have a lower risk
- Deodorants and antiperspirants cause breast cancer
- Wearing an underwire bra increases your cancer risk
- Breast cancer is preventable
- Only women with a family history of breast cancer are at risk