Salt Lake City公益组织升级乳腺健康应用 首次加入个人风险评估与定制筛查计划
Salt Lake City——位于犹他州盐湖县的盐湖城市，总部位于Salt Lake City的全球公益组织“了解你的柠檬”基金会（Know Your Lemons Foundation）10月16日宣布，对其乳腺健康教育应用进行重大升级。在乳腺癌宣传月期间推出的新版本，首次让一款应用可以评估个人风险并据此生成定制筛查计划，同时发起名为“#Lemonista”的推广行动。
该应用曾获威比奖（Webby Award）。新版本通过游戏化设计让用户赢得两枚“柠檬”徽章：一枚代表“自信”，即了解自己的身体；另一枚代表“智慧”，即清楚自己的个人风险和筛查计划。基金会表示，其乳腺健康教育内容已触达全球20亿人次，教材在100多个国家使用。
基金会举例说，24岁的林赛·怀特（Lynsey White）在社交媒体上看到该组织“12种症状”图示一周后，在腋下摸到肿块，几周内确诊乳腺癌，而她起初还曾因年纪轻被告知不必担心。据该组织引用的数据，乳腺癌是美国20至49岁女性癌症死亡的首要原因，早期发现是影响生存率的最关键因素之一；美国放射学会建议女性在25岁前完成一次风险评估。
创始人科琳·埃尔斯沃思-Beaumont（Corrine Ellsworth-Beaumont）表示，人们往往在乳房出现问题之后才开始了解乳腺健康，而每一位分享所学的人，都可能帮助另一个人及早发现异常。
Salt Lake City-Based Know Your Lemons Foundation Upgrades Breast Health App With Personal Risk Assessment
Salt Lake City is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah. The Know Your Lemons Foundation, a global breast-health charity based in Salt Lake City, announced a major update to its educational app on October 16, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For the first time, the app can assess an individual's risk and build a custom screening plan, the foundation said, as it launched a public campaign called #Lemonista.
The Webby Award-winning app uses a series of games to teach users how to check their breasts and understand their personal risk. Users earn two lemons in the app: one representing confidence in knowing their body, and one representing intelligence — knowing their personal risk and screening plan. The foundation says its breast-health education has reached 2 billion people, with materials used in more than 100 countries.
The foundation points to Lynsey White, 24, who found a lump under her armpit a week after seeing its "12 symptoms" image on social media and was diagnosed with breast cancer within weeks, after initially being told she was too young to worry. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women ages 20 to 49, and the American College of Radiology recommends that women complete a risk assessment by age 25.
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