I recently read in the Readers Digest (April 2011), that doctors may be missing important information about women’s breast cancer risk. The health brief stated that while medical providers often ask if there is any history of breast cancer in the patient’s mother’s family, they but often neglect to ask if any women from her
father’s family have had cancer.
father’s family have had cancer.
So, ladies when you are at the doc make sure you volunteer any information you have about womanly troubles on your father’s side of the family.
Gentlemen, you can take this advice and flip it. Be sure to let your doctor know about any diseases the males on your mother’s side of the family have experienced.
Unless you were adopted, like me, then you can save yourself a few minutes on those long forms you have to fill out in waiting rooms J
Gentlemen, you can take this advice and flip it. Be sure to let your doctor know about any diseases the males on your mother’s side of the family have experienced.
Unless you were adopted, like me, then you can save yourself a few minutes on those long forms you have to fill out in waiting rooms J
