What is a Breast Chek
Kit?
A breast chek kit
consists of two micro-thin layers of polyurethane with a non-toxic lubricant
sealed in between. When the breast chek is placed on the breast, the bottom
layer gently adheres to the skin and remains stable allowing the upper layer to
slide freely underneath your fingertips. As the upper layer slides freely over
the bottom layer, friction is greatly reduced. This results in what is called,
“sensory touch magnification”, or in other words your sense of touch is greatly
improved thereby improving the effectiveness of all breast self exams you do as
part of your breast health program.
Praise for the Breast
Chek Kit
From: The United
States Congress
HOUSE MEMBERS
INTRODUCE BREAST CANCER DETECTION ACT TO MAKE BREAST SELF-EXAM AID WIDELY
AVAILABLE TO AMERICAN WOMEN
Washington, D.C. U. S.
Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich (R-Nev. 2nd) today introduced legislation that
would give thousands of American women an extra tool in the early detection of
breast lumps by making a small plastic pad that can be used as an aid in breast
self-exams (BSE) directly available to American women.
Vucanovich, a breast
cancer survivor, said the device…can be added as an extra step women take when
they do their monthly BSEs. “We have no cure for cancer, and the best hope for
survival is early detection and early treatment,” Vucanovich said. “The Breast
Chek pad gives women another tool in early detection and should become a part
of every woman’s monthly BSE routine.”
The Vucanovich bill,
entitled the Breast Cancer Detection Act, would allow Breast Chek to be
available without a prescription, making it easily obtainable and widely
accessible to all American women. Original cosponsors are Reps. Joe Barton
(R-Texas-6th), John Meyers (R-Ind-7th), Bill Baker (R-Calif.-10th), Richard
Burr (R-N.C.-5th), and Glen Poshard (D-Ill.-19th). It is supported by the
breast cancer support group Y-Me and thousands of women throughout the nation.
Note: The Breast Chek
Aid is now fully registered as a medical device and approved for
over-the-counter sale throughout the free world.
From: The Whitehouse:
“Thank you also for
sending a sample of the breast cancer detection aid. I am grateful for your
efforts to educate women about the importance of the early detection of breast
cancer and to encourage them to take charge of their health.”
With best wishes,
Laura Bush
From Good Housekeeping
Magazine:
Mark Haas bought the
(Breast Chek) pad for his wife, and she used it the same day even though her
annual mammogram, taken only six weeks earlier, had been normal. Haas was
stunned when she found a pea-sized lump in her right breast. “I couldn’t
believe it”, she says. “My husband thought I was imagining things.” When she
prodded her breast using her fingers alone, she, too, thought maybe she was
imagining things since she could barely feel the lump. But when she used the
(Breast Chek) pad, there it was. “It felt like a pebble,” she recalls. Haas
made an appointment with her doctor, who was able to find the lump with her
fingers after she pointed it out. A biopsy confirmed that the lump was
malignant. Fortunately, Haas had detected the cancer so early that it hadn’t
had a chance to spread…”I’m sure I’m alive today because of the (Breast Chek)
pad,” Haas says.
…mammograms miss 10-15
percent of all cancers. “That’s why it’s important that women have every tool
possible,”Dr. Redmond says. Dr. Patricia Redmond, M.D. director of radiology at
Staten Island University Hospital, New York City.
From: Good
Housekeeping Magazine
Carole Withers, 50, of
Durango, CO, found two pre-cancerous nodules in her left breast while using a
Breast Chek Aid that her husband, a doctor, brought home from the clinic where
he worked. Even her doctor was unable to find the lumps without it. “As women,
we have to take responsibility for our own bodies”, said Withers.
From: Good
Housekeeping Magazine
Mary Daly Gorman, 56,
a writer from Chevy Chase, MD, found a lump in her breast…while using a Breast
Chek Aid. Gorman’s surgeon, Katherine Alley, MD. said, “When I did her biopsy,
I had to keep checking to make sure I had the right spot that’s how small it
was.”
From: The Wall Street
Journal
Dr. Withers, a surgeon
at Maui Clinic, says the Breast Chek Aid has twice enabled him to feel
otherwise undetectable lumps. “There is no question that the Breast Chek Aid
increases tactile ability”, he says “it makes an exam 100% easier.”
From: The Wall Street
Journal
Gale Katterhagen,
medical director of the cancer center at St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank,
CA, says test he conducted indicated that women who used the Breast Chek Aid
were 22% more likely to perform monthly breast self-exams.
From: The Wall Street
Journal
Women who use the
Breast Chek Aid swear by it. Ms Richardson, a 43 year-old Decatur resident,
doubts she would have found two small lumps without the aid. She had a double
mastectomy. “It probably saved my life”, she says, adding that she gave one to
her 19 year-old daughter.
From: Women’s Health
Specialists, Dorcas McLennan, MD, OB/GYN
“…I understand the
need for this type of device on the market for both physicians and consumers
alike. I can already see how the Breast Chek Aid will help me when I
demonstrate to my patients how to perform a breast examination. When I hand the
aid to them after the checkup to take home, I am confident that the increased
sensitivity provided by the Breast Chek Aid will result in more frequent and
thorough self-exams…I look forward to helping spread the word about the Breast
Chek Aid and its importance in the breast self-examination process…I will share
this with my patients, friends and loved ones alike.”
From Senator Penny
Severns, Illinois / Herald & Review, Decatur, Il
Sen. Severns, who
found a small cancer in July but thinks the Breast Chek Aid might have helped
her find it earlier, said just having the device at home will remind women to
check their breasts. “Whatever we can do to promote awareness and self-examination,
coupled with mammograms, we must do,” said Severns.
Breast Chek® was
originally branded the Sensor Pad.
