October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month.<\/p>\n
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare breast surgeon Dr. Shea Everidge says the best way to catch early signs is to schedule annual screenings for mammograms.<\/p>\n
According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the 5-year relative survival rate for early-stage cancer diagnosed at the localized stage is over 99%.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why Everidge says catching cancer early is key. She also says the average age for women to start having routine screenings is 40.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is worth getting your mammogram every year because the smaller we catch your cancers, the less we have to do to get it taken care of and the more likely you are going to survive from that diagnosis,\u201d Everidge says.<\/p>\n
She says the most common symptom, is no symptom at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen getting your annual mammogram most times, we\u2019re catching these so small before they become a lump that you can feel or cause any skin changes,\u201d Everidge says.<\/p>\n
Some symptoms that could warrant a trip to a doctor she says are nipple discharge, skin changes and changes to breast contour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare breast surgeon Dr. Shea Everidge says the best way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-416233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}