The subject for October 2009:
Breast Cancer Awareness
Breast cancer is no longer the number one killer of women – heart disease is – yet nearly 200,000 women a year are diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40,000 of them die.
The month of October has become known nationally as Breast Cancer Awareness month and it is that awareness which may help more women understand the importance of early diagnosis and therefore increase the survival rates of breast cancer.
This month, in the Saint Vincent Health Insights reports, we go back to the basics of understanding Breast Cancer and what all women should know.
Click to read about Breast Health from October 2008
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If you have a question regarding the topic and would like to see it answered during the series, send it to us using the form below. WICU will facilitate getting your questions in front of the medical professionals at Saint Vincent Health Center.
- Summer healthy living
- Women's health from teens to midlife
- American Heart Month
- Outpatient Surgery
- Hip and Knee Replacement
- Breast Health (x)
- Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery (x)
- Staying safe during the winter and holidays (x)
- Top Ten In Health (x)
- Medical Advances in Heart Care (x)
- Joint Replacement (x)
- Saint Vincent Rehabilitiation (x)
- Heath care during the economic downturn (x)
- Emergency Services (x)
- Outpatient services (x)
- Back to school (x)
- H1N1 and seasonal flu viruses (x)
- Breast Cancer Awareness (x)
The topics change monthly! Here's what's coming up:
- Spine Center and Pain Clinic
- Heart Disease
- Orthopedics