{"id":205,"date":"2015-10-01T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2015-12-12T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T08:15:16","slug":"breast-cancer-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/archives\/205\/breast-cancer-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast cancer awareness month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October\u00a0is the\u00a0Breast Cancer Awareness Month since 1985 so here&#8217;s a few facts about it: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-206 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dr-kitsios-christos.jpg\" alt=\"dr kitsios christos\" width=\"177\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dr-kitsios-christos.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dr-kitsios-christos-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide<\/li>\n<li>It will concern 1 woman on 8 at least once in their life<\/li>\n<li>It is the second cause of death for women in the world<\/li>\n<li>Having a mammogram regularly(every year or two according to your risk factors) may reduce its mortality\u00a0by at least 30%<\/li>\n<li>Top risk factors are excess in female hormones, age and gene mutations<\/li>\n<li>Having a breast cancer gives you 4 times more chance of having a second one<\/li>\n<li>Breast feeding may reduce its risk by 4-5%<\/li>\n<li>Regular exercise also reduces its risk<\/li>\n<li>Overweight women \u00a0are at twice the risk of lean women<\/li>\n<li>Only 42% of women going through a mastectomy will have reconstructive surgery after<\/li>\n<li>Breast reconstruction is a multi stage procedure and often needs multiple operations<\/li>\n<li>Timing of reconstruction has an impact on patients&#8217;options and results.<\/li>\n<li>1% of breast cancers concern men<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October\u00a0is the\u00a0Breast Cancer Awareness Month since 1985 so here&#8217;s a few facts about it: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide It will concern 1 woman on 8 at least once in their life It is the second cause of death for women in the world Having a mammogram regularly(every year or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Dr Kitsios Christos Plastic Surgery blog","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs","category-news","clearfix","post-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drkitsioschristos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}