As mothers, wives, employees, caregivers, friends we lead busy lives. For many women, there is rarely a day when some family, work or other obligation has her running here or there. Unfortunately, with all this running around, we sometimes ignore medical symptoms saying we just don’t have the time to get to the doctor.

Fear can also cause you to procrastinate. After all, who wants to hear bad news. You may think a symptom means the worse and so, instead, you minimize it or ignore it. You say...