Taking Care of Your Girls: Lessons in Teen Boob Health

By Anne Krueger

As sophisticated as teenage girls are becoming (and I should know, I have two of them), it turns out they don’t know much about a topic close to their hearts: breasts. When Breastcancer.org—together with Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia—surveyed more than 3,000 girls, they discovered that:

• More than 30% of girls perceived a normal change in their breasts to be a sign of breast cancer

• More than 20% thought breast cancer was caused by infection, tanning, drug use, stress, or breast injury—all of which are breast cancer myths Read More