Join our #yesMAMM Twitter Chat on October 27
Save the date: October 27, Noon-1:00
As I have mentioned both on the air and in previous blog posts right, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
So far this month we have talked about breast cancer detection on the Healthy Matters radio broadcast (which you can check out here via podcast) and I did a longer post about mammography right here on the blog.
Now we’re planning a cool and interactive way to keep the conversation going: a Twitter chat! What’s that, you say? Good question!
Dr. Tony Severt
The Twitter chat will feature Dr. Tony Severt (the radiologist who was on the radio broadcast) answering your questions via Twitter, LIVE on October 27 from Noon – 1:00 p.m. To participate, simply share your breast cancer or mammography story, ask a question, or raise a comment using the hashtag #yesMAMM and using my Twitter handle: @drdavidhilden. Then sit back and watch the conversation, hear Dr. Severt’s answers, and learn a bit more about breast cancer detection.
Pass the word on to your friends: October 27, Noon – 1:00 p.m.
#yesMAMM
Do you need a mammogram?
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
I wrote this post about 4 or 5 times. The first draft found me in the weeds of details and statistics. In the second draft I sounded too preachy. My third attempt covered every aspect of breast cancer from risk factors to diagnosis to treatment and was waaaaaaay too long. I just couldn’t seem to get it right.
Then I realized that breast cancer is a multi-headed beast. It has technical clinical aspects. It has emotional overtones. It has a definite gender angle that I, as a man, really cannot fathom. It has controversy. It is scary.
It is just too much to cover in one blog post, ergo, my troubles in writing about it. So I’ve decided to talk about a single aspect of breast cancer – that being the role of mammography in screening.
I know people with breast cancer. I bet you do as well.
Do you know anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer? I’m guessing you do. Perhaps someone you love died of breast cancer. Perhaps you know someone living with breast cancer. Perhaps you or someone in your life was recently diagnosed. Perhaps you are a survivor yourself.
I know so many people in my life (not just my doctor life, I mean my real life) who have or have had or did have breast cancer. It is really sobering. Really close friends. Several women from my church congregation. Relatives. My own mother-in-law. Wonderful strong women all of them.
The point is that breast cancer is a relatively common disease that affects nearly 1 in 8 women in their lifetime. The other point is that breast cancer takes a variety of forms and affects women (and men) with many different faces from every community. And another point is that breast cancer is treatable.
This Sunday on Healthy Matters (my weekly health and wellness radio show) we talked about breast cancer screening with the major focus on mammography as the single most effective screening method available. In this post I will cover:
- Expert advice from last Sunday’s radio broadcast featuring radiologist and mammography expert Dr. Tony Severt.
- Some solid information about breast cancer screening – the guidelines for mammography, including the newest 2016 guidelines
- A look at the controversy around mammography guidelines.
Thanks for joining me. Let’s learn something together . . .
Just a spoonful of sugar . . . is really not good for you
Hey, everybody. Thanks for checking in with me at the blog. If you are new to MyHealthyMatters, this is the companion blog to my weekly radio show, coincidentally called HealthyMatters. The show airs on Sunday mornings, at 7:30 a.m. Central Time on WCCO 830 AM radio in Minnesota and surrounding states and streams live at that time on wcco.com if you aren’t in our part of the world. Anyway, thanks for spending some time with me on the blog. Go ahead and subscribe by e-mail (at upper right or at the end of this post) if you like what you see.
Preview of this post
Here’s what I’ll cover today:
- The sordid past of sugar and fat research.
- The great sugar vs fat debate of 1967. And 1987. and 2007. And today. This is one debate that never seems to go away.
- A few words about processed foods.
- And of course, links to further information for the extra-curious reader. You know who you are.
So with apologies to Mary Poppins, here we go . . . read more…
