The Women’s Wellness Connection Program (WWC) is a statewide program that provides FREE breast and cervical cancer screenings and diagnostic testing to uninsured and underinsured women who qualify.
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Health care costs are a big obstacle for many people with cancer diagnoses, sometimes costing people tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket. I won’t get breast cancer.
Doctors have taken up the cause of reaching out to women across the city to mark the ongoing Breast Cancer Awareness month.
While there have been groundbreaking strides in treating breast cancer, there are still 40,000 women in the US dying from the disease every year, and millions who are living with the disease, keeping it at bay, or enduring quite barbaric treatments, including disfiguring surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation. A 2010 study by Dubai-based Centre for Arab Genomic Studies, found that breast cancer appears in Arab nationals at least a decade earlier than women in the Western societies.
If you’re in need of help, you can call the Sisters By Choice hotline at 770-987-2951 or visit their website. If you have no insurance or your insurance will not cover your mammogram, financial help is available by contacting the Cerro Gordo County Department of Public Health’s Care for Yourself program at 641-421-9315. “Since oestrogen is a steroid it increases the chances of cancer”, Naik added, “This is a hurdle that the medical science has to find a way around”. Early detection saved my life.
“When we can catch a stage one breast cancer very early, women have a greater than 98.5 percent survival, and that’s where I like our patients – in the survival mode”, Hayes said.
Connally Memorial Medical Center has recently implemented a new, state-of-the-art digital mammography system.
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According to North Carolina’s State Center for Health Statistics, 9,772 women in North Carolina will be diagnosed with and 1,391 will die of breast cancer in 2015.
