WHY THE EARLY ACT?
- Early detection can save lives.
- Early detection does not receive enough emphasis in health care for the young adult population.
- Young women diagnosed with breast cancer face unique challenges:
- Body Image: After breast cancer related surgery, young women face the challenge of embracing their new bodies.
- Relationships and Dating: Intimacy issues as well as the increased stress on a relationship.
- Career: Young women are often in the midst of beginning and building up their careers. Being diagnosed with breast cancer can interfere with day to day success at work and chance of promotion.
- Fertility: Breast cancer treatment may prevent a young woman from having any children.
- Financial Challenges: Breast cancer can dramatically impact a woman’s financial stability. Young women at the beginning of their careers are generally less well off and less likely to be insured.
- Young women need emotional support targeted to their specific needs as young adults.
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Rep. Wasserman Schultz is joined by Staci Slingbaum, a
local breast cancer patient in her early 30s, in front of a
mobile mammography clinic van at Memorial Breast
Cancer Center in Pembroke Pines. Rep. Wasserman
Schultz announced that she was seeking federal funds
to provide comprehensive screening, evaluation, diagnosis
and treatment to more women in South Broward. |
