The National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. (NBCF) is offering a new free iPhone app called the Early Detection Plan (EDP) that encourages women to become more proactive about their health by scheduling reminders via push notifications to perform routine breast self-exams and schedule clinical breast exams and mammograms.
The app can be tailored to each user, taking age and health history into account to determine optimal scheduling for both self and professional exams. It’s also filled with information about clinical breast exams, mammograms, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and tutorials on how to properly perform a breast self-exam.
“Early detection plans are crucial to women’s health,” said NBCF Founder and CEO, Janelle Hail. “The EDP app is a simple, easy way to teach women how to perform exams properly and set vital reminders for exam scheduling. This is an app that will help save lives.”
When women create and follow an early detection plan, they significantly increase their chances of detecting breast cancer in its early stages. The National Cancer Institute states that when breast cancer is found in its early, localized stage, the five year survival rate is 98 percent. However, more than 30 percent of women are diagnosed after breast cancer has spread beyond the localized stage.
For more information, go to http://www.nbcf.org.
