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Breastnotes.com was
created to help you to understand the breast: its development and growth
patterns, its function and purpose, its role in various societies, its
care, and its problems.
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better understand the breast, we offer instructional information in our
Anatomy
section. Drawings,
diagrams and images serve as references, and will illustrate the details
that we cover elsewhere in this site.
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than 195,000 women and 1,500 men will discover that they have
breast
cancer this year. If you do not have breast cancer, we want
to show you everything that we are aware of to prevent your getting
it, how to detect whether you might have it, and how to offer help if
others should get it. If you should happen to get breast cancer, or
have it now, we want to show you what might be done about it.
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cancer that grows in our body will kill us. . .unless we can find it and
get it out of our body AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!! The three most important
things that we can do to find a growth in the breast that may become malignant
are: regularly scheduled mammograms, annual Clinical Breast Exams with
your health practitioner, and monthly
Breast
Self Examinations. We want to show you how to do Breast Self Exams
properly.
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young people grow up and become mature people, their breasts go through
many changes. We want to help them understand just what to expect, and
what to do if the expected results do not occur. More mature people
may have some concerns about this too.
Visit the Breast Awareness Section
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many, God placed breasts on our bodies for the sole purpose of feeding
our offspring. With an increased knowledge of breast anatomy, and an explanation
about how breasts produce milk, we hope to encourage more mothers to make
the choice to breastfeed their new arrivals.
Visit the Breastfeeding Section
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all enjoy finding new information, learning about medical
breakthroughs, and discovering other current topics of interest.
Also, everyone enjoys getting mail (as long as it is not
advertisements or bills… or politicians asking for the bills in
our wallet), and we are no exception. Please feel free to
write to us,
or to ask any questions that you feel we can help you
with.
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lot of research has been done since the mid 1990's about whether
there is a possible link between the wearing of a brassier and it
causing a higher risk of breast cancer in the one wearing it. We
have added a section that will directly deal with this concept where
we will publish literature from some of those researchers. You will
find it under
Bra/Breast Cancer.
We hope that you will take the opportunity to read what these
innovative people have to say to us.

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