2024-10-03 10:20:00
In 2023, 61,214 new cases of breast cancer will be detected in mainland France, according to the National Cancer Institute. How to prevent? How to detect it best and as quickly as possible? What resources should you turn to for breast cancer prevention?
Learn through digital training
With their online training module, they offer tests, questionnaires, advice and documentary resources, particularly those from Montpellier University Hospital, providing information on warning signs. The training also offers a practical guide to learn how to perform a breast self-palpation.
Find out more thanks to applications that remove taboos about cancer
Another application is available for free on the App Store and Google Play Store: “My screening: cancer”. This app allows you to obtain many information about breast cancer and treatment.
Hear other testimonies, share your experience, listen to podcasts…
Prevention apps aren’t everything. Prevention also involves the testimonies of other women suffering from breast cancer, as in many podcasts such as Les Pipelettes for example. In their episode “Recurrence”they evoke the daily life of young women affected by breast cancer. We laugh, we cry, we play down crisis situations… The idea of this podcast is above all to talk “without tabooproblems we face when we are affected by breast cancer“, as the directors explain.
To follow the full journey of a fighter, listen to the podcast “My Boob story – Optimistic diary of my breast cancer” by Sophie Hoffmann. While she has been fighting the disease for five years, she shares her experience while maintaining her sense of humor. “In my family, female cancers are in the genes. Like Angelina Jolie, I carry the BRCA1 genetic mutation which predisposes to breast and ovarian cancer. My luck is to know this, and to “been closely monitored for 5 years by the Institut Curie”, she said at the release of her podcast. Today, Sophie Hoffmann actively campaigns on social networks to destigmatize and lift taboos on breast cancer by sharing women’s testimonies.
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