Harlem Community Education and Development Trust

2025 classes and Registration in progress

Empowering both urban and rural communities... There is no stopping in that direction...

Proud of you team Bots...receiving an award for outstanding voluntary service...HARLEM TRUST INTERNATIONAL CONTINUES TO EMPOWER AND DEVELOP COMMUNITIES THROUGH TRAINING, VOLUNTEERING AND DONATIONS...

EMPOWERING MORE PEOPLE THROUGH TRAINING IN ZIM AND BOTSWANA...

VOLUNTARY WORK AND DONATIONS BY HARLEM TRUST VOLUNTEERS AT ELDERLY SHELTER IN BOTSWANA. THANKS FOR GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY MRS KAMBA AND TEAM...

BREAST CANCER MYTHS DEBUNKED

MYTH: Wearing a bra can cause breast cancer.
FACT: There is no evidence that bras cause breast cancer.

MYTH: If you maintain a healthy weight, exercise regularly, eat healthy, and limit alcohol, you don’t have to worry about breast cancer.
FACT: Although these behaviors can help lower breast cancer risk, they can’t eliminate it. There are some people who develop breast cancer without any known risk factors.

MYTH: Breast cancer only happens to middle-aged and older women.
FACT: Younger women can and do get breast cancer, as do men.

MYTH: If I don’t have a family history of breast cancer, I won’t get it.
FACT: Most people diagnosed with breast cancer have no known family history. Only 5-10 % of patients who develop breast cancer have family history.

MYTH: Annual mammograms guarantee that breast cancer will be found early.
FACT: Although mammography is the best early-detection tool we have, it doesn’t always find breast cancer at an early stage.

MYTH: Consuming too much sugar causes breast cancer.
FACT: There is no evidence that sugar in the diet causes breast cancer.

MYTH: Breast cancer always causes a lump you can feel.
FACT: Breast cancer might not cause a lump, especially when it first develops.

MYTH: All breast cancer is treated pretty much the same way.
FACT: Treatment plans vary widely depending on the stage of the cancer, characteristics of the cancer and patient preferences.

MYTH: Early-stage breast cancer cannot recur.
FACT: Even with early-stage breast cancer, there is always some risk the cancer will return. Hence, its important to go for regular follow up visits post treatment as advised by your oncologist so that if there is any recurrence it may caught early.

A sphygmomanometer is a device that measures blood pressure. It is composes of an inflatable rubber cuff, which is wrapped around the arm. A measuring device indicates the cuff's pressure. A bulb inflates the cuff and a valve releases pressure. A stethoscope is used to listen to arterial blood flow sounds.

As the heart beats, blood forced through the arteries cause a rise in pressure, called systolic pressure, followed by a decrease in pressure as the heart's ventricles prepare for another beat. This low pressure is called the diastolic pressure.

The sphygmomanometer cuff is inflated to well above expected systolic pressure. As the valve is opened, cuff pressure (slowly) decreases. When the cuff's pressure equals the arterial systolic pressure, blood begins to flow past the cuff, creating blood flow turbulence and audible sounds. Using a stethoscope, these sounds are heard and the cuff's pressure is recorded. The blood flow sounds will continue until the cuff's pressure falls below the arterial diastolic pressure. The pressure when the blood flow sounds stop indicates the diastolic pressure.

Systolic and diastolic pressures are commonly stated as systolic 'over' diastolic. For example, 120 over 80. Blood flow sounds are called Korotkoff sounds.

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