Taking Care of Your Girls

Breastcancer.org and Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital recently surveyed more than 3,000 teenage girls, and determined that -

- More than 30% of girls perceived a normal change in their breasts to be a sign of breast cancer
- More than 20% thought breast cancer was caused by infection, tanning, drug use, stress, or breast injury

The outcome of this survey was that Marisa C. Weiss, MD, of Breastcancer.org, and her 18-year-old daughter, Isabel Friedman, wrote Taking Care of Your Girls.

This book, which is due to be released this week, deals with breast health for teenagers in a forthright and topical manner previously lacking in such publications.