This workshop was offered as a promotion for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It encouraged employers, community organizations, healthcare professionals, and the average woman to combine resources to create programs to help with awareness and quick diagnosis of breast cancer. It is very important for a woman to know the topography of her own breasts. Women over the age of 40 should have a mammogram every two years and women over age 50 should begin having one every year.
Breast cancer is one of the most treatable and easily controlled types of cancer there is.
It just takes getting oneself on a monthly schedule and getting the word out to one's friends and family about the importance of early detection. Last updated March 21, 1998.