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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. With this in mind, I want to share with you information about something new that every woman should know about.

The Donna Glove is a special glove designed to detect breast lumps. It is a safe and effective way for every woman to carry out breast self examination. The Donna Glove boasts a special design that magnifies the sense of your fingers allowing lumps the size of a grain of sugar to be detected. This cannot be done with bare hands.

To use the Donna Glove, you perform a breast self exam in the same way except you wear the Glove. You check from your collar bone and into your armpits on both sides. It is now known that lumps can grow in one weeks time so it is suggested to perform the procedure weekly.

The glove itself is a double layer of polyurethane with mineral oil between the layers. This allows for the enhanced ability to feel lumps.

There was a study involving 108 women over a one year period. These women all had previous lumps and were at high risk for developing breast cancer. They were split into two groups. Group 1 was given a Donna Glove and group 2 continued to do self breast exams with bare hands.

After six months, 84% of these patients had recurrence of the lumps confirmed by mammography. Group 1 (issued the Donna Glove) had a 100% self-detection rate. Group 2 had only 22 of 45 women detecting lumps with their bare hands.

This study concluded that in a population of potential breast cancer patients breast self exam with the Donna Glove is directly connected to earlier detection and an improved survival rate over bare hand self examination.