{"id":5279,"date":"2015-10-21T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T20:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2015-10-21T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T20:27:48","slug":"health-tip-of-the-month-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/health-tip-of-the-month-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Tip Of The Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Breast Cancer Awareness Month<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>About 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in their life.\u00a0 Breast Cancer Awareness month is an annual international health campaign organized to spread awareness about the disease and raise funds for research into its cause, diagnosis, prevention, and a cure.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Surprising statistics about breast cancer:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The most significant risk factors for breast cancer are being female as well as aging. An estimated 95% of all breast cancers in the US are in women 40 and older.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since 1990, the number of breast cancer deaths has been declining due to better screening, early detection, increased awareness, and new treatment options.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Breast cancer is more common in developed countries rather than undeveloped countries.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The United States has the most recorded cases of breast cancer in the world.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among American women, right behind skin cancer.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first operation to ever use anesthesia was a breast <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">cancer surgery.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The youngest known survivor of breast cancer was barely three years old.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s been estimated that if every woman over the age of 50 had a proper mammogram every year, breast cancer deaths would decrease in this age group by a potential 25% or more![spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More than 40,000 people every year in the United States will die from breast cancer.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Breast cancer is often refered to as the \u201cNuns Disease\u201d due to the high incidence of Nuns affected by breast cancer.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is a strong correlation between an increase in weight and the diagnosis of breast cancer. Especially individuals who gained weight after adolescence or after menopause.[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><em>Click <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/americanretirementadvisors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-ARA-October-Newsletter-TO-PRINT-28.5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for the full version of the October newsletter.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breast Cancer Awareness Month [spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;] About 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in their life.\u00a0 Breast Cancer Awareness month is an annual international health campaign organized to spread awareness about the disease and raise funds for research into its cause, diagnosis, prevention, and a cure. \u00a0[spacer height=&#8221;20px&#8221;] Surprising statistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-medicare"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>American Retirement Advisors 800-568-1095 Expert Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"American Retirement Advisors, David P. 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