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The BSE Pad
Classified under United States FDA Class2 Medical device
for use during breast self-examination.
(FDA Class 2 means easy to
use but needs education). Holds 2 patents to prove it
works!.
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Quick
and easy to learn
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Simple
to use
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Reusable
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Latex free
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Easy to demonstrate.
"When I first brought home "The BSE Pad", I didn't use it for
six months because I didn't feel confident that I would be able
to detect a lump on my own," said Mary G. of Chevy Chase,
Maryland. "Once I started using it, I was amazed at how the pad
was able to enhance my sense of touch.
"The BSE Pad" helped me find a lump that both a mammogram and
my doctor had missed."
 What
is the BSE Pad?
The BSE pad is a soft ultra-thin latex free polyurethane
pad with a special lubricant sealed inside. The BSE pad was
designed to help women perform their monthly breast
self-examinations with confidence and accuracy, and detect any
changes in their breasts at the earliest possible time.
 How
does the BSE Pad work?
The lubricant contained within the pad reduces friction
and greatly enhances the sense of touch. This dramatically
heightened sensitivity can help a woman detect any lumps or
changes in breast tissue that she might not detect without the
pad.
For Demonstration of the BSE Pad
Cut a small piece of thin
paper 5 x 5mm and place it on top of a smooth surface. Touch it
with your finger tip. You can hardly make out the outline of
the paper.
Place the BSE pad on top of
the tiny piece of paper. Try and feel the paper with your finger
tip. You can sense and feel the outline of the paper. The BSE
pad increases your sense of touch.
Place some
salt on the table and feel it using the pad and without. You
will feel your sense of touch is better with the pad, as you now
feel the object in 3 dimensions.
Place a grain
of rice under a sponge. Feel it using the pad and without. Again
you will feel the grain of rice is a lot bigger using the bse
pad.
This pad will help a women
detect early sign of breast cancer – even if it is a very tiny
lump. Nobody wants to hear the words –“You’ve got cancer”.
However, early detection can save your life. Better not to have
cancer. But, if you have it, better to find it when small.
How to promote the BSE Pad to a medical doctor?
Just ask the
doctor : Doctor, have you seen this
before? It is from US. It’s a FDA Class 2 medical device for
women to use to detect breast cancer. In the US many doctors are
using it.
Product
Endorsements
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 Self Examination 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 the BSE Pad 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 BSE Pad is a FDA approved and
registered 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 pad. 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
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 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 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 BSE Pad 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 BSE Pad. 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 BSE Pad has twice enabled him to feel
otherwise undetectable lumps. "There is no question that the
BSE Pad 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 BSE Pad were 22% more likely to perform
monthly breast self-exams.
From: The Wall Street
Journal
Women who use the BSE
Pad 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 BSE Pad 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 BSE Pad will result in more
frequent and thorough self-exams...I look forward to helping
spread the word about the BSE Pad 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 BSE Pad 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.
(In USA, the BSE Pad sells under
different brand names including Breast Chek Aid, Sensivitity
Pad and Sensor Pad.?
 
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