On the eve of the Month of the sensitization to the breast cancer, the Canadian Society of the cancer announces that it doesn’t recommend the practice of the autoexamen of the breasts anymore as fashion of
This change of message intervenes after about fifteen years of sensitization programs inciting the women to practice the autoexamen of the breasts once per month. The new position of the Canadian Society of the cancer reflects the one that adopted already, last year, the world organization of Health (WHO) and the Society of the obstetricians and gynecologists of Canada.
The results of the studies published on this day indicate that the regular practice of the autoexamen of the breasts doesn’t permit to save of lives. She/it is also associated to a rate raised of false positive results. This technique can also create a false sense of security at the women, inciting them to disregard the real efficient tools to track down the breast cancer,: the clinical exam and the mammography.
” The autoexamen of the breasts is not necessarily easy to practice and the number often raised of false results positive deal place to biopsies useless and generating of anxiety for the women” affirm the Dre Johanne Blais, professeure to the Department of domestic medicine of the Faculty of medicine of the Laval university.
The Canadian Society of the cancer encourages the women all the same to feel their breasts to discover all abnormal change. It is not however necessary to observe a technique and a precise moment to make it, she/it specifies.
To privilege the clinical exam and the mammography
One estimates that the autoexamen permits débusquer the quarter of the cancerous masses. The clinical exam practiced by a health professional would reveal 42% to 83% of the tumors, and the mammography would detect some about 85%. While coupling these two methods, the proportion of cancers tracked down would pass to 90%. The Canadian Society of the cancer adjusts shooting therefore. She/it underlines the importance of the clinical exam and the mammography as means of tracking of the breast cancer.
The government of Quebec offers a program of tracking that allows the women aged of 50 years to 69 years to pass a mammography every two years. The service is free provided that it is dispensed in one centers of tracking nominees by the ministry of Health. Suzanne Dubois, the general manager of the Canadian Society of the cancer, division of Quebec, deplores that only 51% of the Quebecois admissible to this program take advantage some.
And that should make the women who are less than 50 years old? The health professionals can advise them on the best strategy of tracking to adopt, underline the Dre Johanne Blais. ” On the occasion of your routine gynecological exam, she/it specifies, speak with your physician. Ask him to practice a clinical exam of your breasts and to value your factor of risk.
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