Monday, July 7, 2008

New Breast Cancer Tool

I really wanted to write a blog about this since I found out about it last week and I'm now a little obsessed with trying to get every women I know to aware about this new test.
I learned about it on the news last week. They were doing a little blurb about it and I think it's a great tool. Anyways, it's called Halo Breast Pap, it's a machine that can test breast fluid and find out if you have breast cancer 8 years before a mammogram can. This is cuz the cancer starts in the breast ductal system before a lump is formed. I think it's great since most drs will not give mammograms til you are in your 30's(if not older) this is great for younger women (like me) that have a family history of breast cancer. I'm very lucky that my dr is very proactive and I get an ultrasound every year to make sure, but many dr's don't do that. Basically they are trying to get this to be like a Pap Smear, were you have it done every year. It takes about 5mins and doesn't hurt. It was just FDA approved and at the moment insurances are not covering it, but it's only about $125 to have it done.
I have included some links for you to read more about this in the blog(see underlined words) but if you do a search on Google under Halo breast cancer you can get tons more.

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