Health Reform Supports Research Against Breast Cancer

A common feature of the Washington Post that part of the new law has focused on raising awareness of young women and their doctors about the risk of breast cancer in women aged 15-44 the new health reform law, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is to come up with campaigns to raise awareness for breast cancer and young women, focusing primarily on healthy habits for the prevention and early detection of breast cancer.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is also responsible for developing new screening methods to prevent the occurrence of breast cancer in young women and to improve early detection. All these efforts will be funded by donations of $ 9 million a year between 2010 and 2014.

The American Cancer Society found that 10 percent of the estimated quarter of a million women are diagnosed with breast cancer in a given year are young women under 45 years. If this is not a majority, found that young women suffer from a more aggressive form of the disease, and the American Cancer Society shared that young women with breast cancer have a lower survival rate.

According to counsel, the lower survival rate attributed to the fact that young women considered to be generally healthy and have less risk of developing the disease. This serves both patients and their doctors to take a "wait and see" attitude after the discovery of a piece, which led to the confirmation of the disease at a later date.