This article was written by John Yuen and orginally appeared in the The Spectator, the Stuyvesant High School newspaper May 2, 2011.
A representative from the Maurer Foundation came to Stuyvesant in order to educate students about breast cancer on Thursday, April 7 and Friday, April 8. Students who are currently taking health attended the presentation in Lecture Hall A.
Maurer Foundation educator Susan Simon presented a slide show that informed students about the risk factors for breast cancer, such as high A female sex hormone that is primarily produced by the ovaries. Its primary function is to regulate the menstrual cycle and assist in the production of secondary sex characteristics such as breasts. It may even play a role in the production of cancer cells in the breast tissue. More levels, improper diet, lack of exercise, negative environmental factors, and smoking.
She went on to discuss the importance of detecting breast cancer in its early stages. Starting at age 18, women can undergo Clinical Breast Exams in which doctors feel the breasts to detect abnormal A mass of cells that can be benign or malignant. More growth. In addition, medical professionals recommend that women get mammograms—x-rays of the breast—annually beginning at age 40.
“It is very important for teenage girls to understand how to do self-breast examinations, because the earlier they get into the habit, the more they will continue the habit, and hopefully it would help them in the [case] they detect something,” health teacher Barbara Garber said.
Simon also passed around breasts models so students could practice feeling for abnormal lumps, though she reminded them only a The removal and examination of tissue from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease. More can determine if the lumps are cancerous or Not harmful; not cancerous (referring to a cell or mass). More.
“The presentation was valuable because many women don’t find out that they have cancer until the lump is relatively large. It is important to know how to self-examine ourselves and catch the cancer as soon as possible,” junior Tiffany Wang said.
Though the presentation focused on breast cancer and women, the representatives reminded the male students to not take the information lightly because about one percent of breast cancer cases in America occur among men.
“It is important for boys to be able to understand self-exams. Boys 15 to 25 are The state or fact of being likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing. More to testicular cancer, and even though the focus is on breast cancer, they still understand what a lump is like, what a lump feels like,” Garber said.
Garber feels that the presentation effectively informed students about breast cancer and how to combat it. “That’s the focus of the Maurer Foundation: to get people to detect lumps and then to understand a little bit about different tests, and how the disease progresses, and how you can detect them at different stages,” Garber said. “It is an excellent program.”
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