LAKEPORT In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sutter Lakeside Hospital will provide free mammograms for uninsured women during the month of October. “The breast and cervical cancer screening project has been available for many years”, she said, “but the problem was what to do once there was a positive diagnosis”. One in 40 Ashkenazi Jews carries a BRCA gene mutation which greatly increases the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, almost 10 times the rate of the general population. “Come November, I will be a 5-year breast cancer survivor and mine was detected through mammography”. And it would all start with Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Cain says the symposium paved the way for breast cancer awareness here in Acadiana. Reproduction of material from any JustHere Qatar pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. If I hadn’t had that mammogram, in another year I probably would have had a number of positive nodes.
Breast cancer screenings are an important part of women’s health. The awareness reminds women to get their yearly screenings and the funds support many research projects and community outreach sources for those who are already diagnosed.
But it’s not just women who should be educated and aware. People are awaiting the final decision from proposed guidelines which say women should put off mammograms by a decade.
Visitors can learn about spotting the early warning signs of the disease, which affects around 42,000 people a year in England. Think of the ways to prevent its occurrence, like getting a yearly mammogram because study after study shows that early detection is key to survival!
For starters, does finding a lump automatically mean cancer? She says being informed can save your life.
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“So far it has been successful but the toll that it takes on the families, not just the survivor or victim of breast cancer but it’s far reaching beyond that”, said BC Peterson.
