I got an email recently from Whitney Keyes about a 3-part video on how to support a friend with breast cancer.

I am linking to part 2 because it’s more directly related to the title of this post, but the other two parts are worth watching. No worries to watch it out of order.

The video gives some good tips on ways to be supportive, but I’d love to hear how you’ve gone about giving a good friend support during their bout with cancer. And I am sure other people would too. There are plenty of hits on this site from search engines with keywords related to this topic.

The data are a little over a year old, however…

US women are getting mammograms to screen for breast cancer at declining rates, according to a study describing a trend that some health officials fear may reverse progress against the deadly disease.

The percentage of women 40 and older saying they had a mammogram within the past two years slipped from 70 percent in 2000 to 66 percent in 2005, according to the study appearing today in the journal Cancer.

Source

What’s your reason for not getting a mammogram? And that’s not an attitude-filled question, I’d actually like to know.

My wife just said (roughly) while looking over my should while typing this, “There ought to be an alternative to mammograms … they do sonograms to check babies in the womb, why can’t that work for breasts … mammograms hurt!”