Pre-Test: Mammogram Screening Saves Lives
1. Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women.
2. One of the most significant lifestyle changes that reduce the risk of developing breast cancer is increase physical activity in the form of exercise.
3. The amount of alcohol consumed does not make a difference in developing breast cancer.
4. Mammography rates have increased in the last decade.
5. Women are not getting mammograms because of lack of insurance, lack of access, lack of knowledge, or lack of a recommendation for a mammogram from a health care provider.
6. The benefits of the mammography offset the harmful radiation and can detect 75% of cancers up to a year before a lump can be palpated.
7. The breast ultrasound is the best tool for breast cancer screening for breast cancer for women over the age of 40.
8. Diagnostic mammography or ultrasonography, patient recall, breast biopsy are some of the services used for follow up for a patient with abnormal screening results.
9. Is it safe to say that if a woman had a Patient Centered Medical Home her breast cancer could be found early?
10. The affordable Health Care Act covers preventive services for women in the form of screening mammography, BRCA1 & BRCA2 genetic counseling about genetic testing for women at higher risk and breast cancer chemoprevention.
11. If you received a tool kit from Every Woman Matters, are the calendars and the pens in the Breast Cancer Tool Kit awareness tools?