Breast Cancer, Protection
In this video, Sherrill Sellman spends about 27 minutes speaking on "Breast Cancer, Protection" at the 34th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
Transcription
Good afternoon, it's always a pleasure to be here at this conference. This is such a gift and a blessing to all of us. So I want to thank the team for making it happen for the thirty fourth year. Pretty amazing. So hormone's breast cancer. I'm going to be talking today about breast cancer protection. Now, what I'm going to share with you really affects all of us. The solutions and the recommendations are really relevant for all of us. You know, I want to remind men that prostate cancer kills more men than breast cancer. And it is a hormone driven cancer, very sensitive to estrogens, just like the hormone driven cancers in women. So this is very important for men, for women, and for those of you who have children, grandchildren and just, you know, the community that we live in.
For many years, I've been involved in investigating and exposing the myths and misinformation regarding a wide variety of issues affecting women and women's hormonal health. And as I continue to explore the issues, just expand. And today is part of the research that has come out of my new book, which I was really hoping would be here in time, but it'll be about two more weeks. But my new book is called What Women Must Know to Protect Their Daughters from Breast Cancer. So the time I have with you this afternoon is to look at some practical things we should all be doing. These are things that I personally do in my daily life. So that's what I wanted to share with you, what I have researched, what I apply and integrate into my life. And if you wanting wanting strategies to keep you as cancer free as possible, I invite you to consider these.
And if you're dealing with cancer, this is something that could certainly be incorporated and works to support your health and your your healing. So I want to start by laying down a few of the interesting facts that we've been taught. This is by the American Cancer Society. So this you know, this is the message. We are told there are no practical ways to prevent breast cancer. Only early detection. And the National Cancer Institute isn't much better because they're saying breast cancer is simply not a preventable disease. So as all of you in this room know, there is no disease that cannot be prevented or healed. So when we are given the message that breast cancer is not a preventable disease, there is nothing we can do to stop it. It leaves us in an incredibly vulnerable, helpless situation. But the fact of the