Breast Cancer Facts & Early Detection
It's our goal at Mosaic Life Care to provide access to early detection and state of the art treatments for those patients who will face breast cancer in our community.  Far too many women over 40 years of age fail to get an annual screening mammography.  Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph - Breast Care was designed and built to attract more and more women to seek out these vital annual exams.

Mammograms can find cancer before you can even feel it! Catching breast cancer at an early stage will give you more treatment options and better outcomes. Early detection can literally save your life! How can you help? Know your facts! Click here for a risk assessment tool

Facts:

• 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer
• 96% of women who find and treat breast cancer early will be cancer free after five years
• The risk of breast cancer increases with age, so every woman is at risk
• Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women and the second most common cause of death among women
• More than 1 in 4 cancers in women are breast cancer
• About 90% of breast cancers are due not to heredity, but to genetic abnormalities that happen as a result of the aging process and life in general
• The first sign of breast cancer shows up on a mammogram long before it can be felt through a self-exam
• A woman is never too young to develop breast cancer. Breast self-exam should begin by the age of 20
• Over 80% of breast lumps are non-cancerous