Breast Self-Awareness Messages card- English
African American Breast Self-Awareness card
Your Breast Care: Helpful Hints for Women
Click here to watch Breast Self-Awareness Interactive Video (ENGLISH)
Click here to watch Breast Self-Awareness Interactive Video (SPANISH)
Except for skin cancers, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, but it can be successfully treated. Screening tests can find cancer early, when it's most treatable.
1. Know your risk
- Talk to your family to learn about your family health history
- Talk to your provider about your personal risk of breast cancer
2. Get screened
- Talk with your doctor about which screening tests are right for you if you are at a higher risk
- Have a mammogram every year starting at age 40 if you are at average risk
- Have a clinical breast exam at least every 3 years starting at age 20, and every year starting at age 40
- Sign up for your screening reminder at www.komen.org/reminder
3. Know what is normal for you
See your health care provider if you notice any of these breast changes:
- Lump, hard knot or thickening inside the breast or underarm area
- Swelling, warmth, redness or darkening of the breast
- Change in the size or shape of the breast
- Dimpling or puckering of the skin
- Itchy, scaly sore or rash on the nipple
- Pulling in of your nipple or other parts of the breast
- Nipple discharge that starts suddenly
- New pain in one spot that doesn't go away
To see illustrations of these warnings signs please visit the Breast Facts section.
4. Make healthy lifestyle choices
Breast Cancer: Your Guide to Breast Self-Awareness DVD in English, Spanish, Arabic and Hindi
This DVD contains eight videos. Each video listed below highlight the four topics of breast self-awareness – know your risk, get screened, know what is normal for you and make healthy lifestyle choices. They also include illustrations that represent the eight warning signs of breast cancer that should be reported to a health care provider. These messages can be used to increase awareness and empower people to take action. They also recap the history of Susan G. Komen® and the impact Komen has made since its inception.
Each language has a subtitle option. This DVD is available for purchase on www.shopkomen.com. Item number KOMEED202000.
Click here to watch Breast Cancer: Your Guide to Breast Self-Awareness (English) (English with subtitles)
Click here to watch Breast Cancer: Your Guide to Breast Self-Awareness (Spanish) (Spanish with subtitles)
Click here to watch Breast Cancer: Your Guide to Breast Self-Awareness (Arabic) (Arabic with subtitles)
Click here to watch Breast Cancer: Your Guide to Breast Self-Awareness (Hindi) (Hindi with subtitles)
These videos can also be found on our Translated Komen Educational Materials page
Breast Cancer: Your Guide to Breast Self-Awareness Videos in Chinese
These videos highlight our breast self-awareness messages in Chinese. The five videos below were specifically developed for use in the U.S. Each video is either in Traditional or Simplified Chinese with subtitle options.
These and four additional videos, specifically developed for use in China, can be found on our Translated Komen Educational Materials page.
Click here to watch Breast Cancer: Your Guide to Breast Self-Awareness in Traditional Chinese
(Traditional Chinese with subtitles)
(Traditional with English subtitles)
Click here to watch Breast Cancer: Your Guide to Breast Self-Awareness in Simplified Chinese
(Simplified Chinese with subtitles)
Breast Self-Awareness Messages Cards
Susan G. Komen for the Cure® offers a variety of Breast Self-Awareness Messages cards in different languages and for specific populations. You can download and print these cards for free or purchase them in bulk quantities from ShopKomen.com. You can also find Breast Self-Awareness Messages cards in other languages from our Translated Komen Educational Materials page. Here, each material is tailored to the audience it is trying to reach. To find a material, select a language and then view the available materials within the different categories. An image and description of each material is also included.
Updated May 8, 2013
