Breast health tips available online

Throughout October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, experts from the Hutchinson Center and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, are offering weekly research-based tip sheets regarding breast cancer prevention, screening and early detection, treatment and survivorship. This week’s tip sheet, the fourth and final in the series, is “10 Tips for Breast Cancer Survivors” by Dr. Karen Syrjala.

Share each week’s top ten tips with family and friends:

• Oct. 4 – “10 Tips for Breast Cancer Prevention” by Dr. Anne McTiernan, Public Health Sciences Division, director of the Prevention Center and author of “Breast Fitness”
• Oct. 8 – “10 Tips for Breast Cancer Screening and Early Detection” by Dr. Constance Lehman, director of Breast Imaging and medical director of Radiology at the SCCA
• Oct. 15 – “10 Tips for Breast Cancer Patients During Treatment” by Dr. Julie Gralow, director of Breast Medical Oncology at the SCCA and co-author of “Breast Fitness”
• Oct. 22 – “10 Tips for Breast Cancer Survivors" by Dr. Karen Syrjala, director of Biobehavioral Sciences and co-director of the Survivorship Program.