Coast woman encourages others to get annual mammograms

The website has been transformed with accents of pink in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

“So being that ideal body weight, exercising, decreasing your alcohol intake, there’s more studies coming out, even just this year that the least amount of alcohol that you can take is beneficial for cancer outcomes”. “Not in Our House” is a fundraising campaign to help those locally in the area who are being affected by the obstacles breast cancer throw in their way. “Screening recommendations can be different for a few of us, especially if there are certain risk factors to consider such as family history”, Tarbuck said. But millions of women are surviving the disease because early detection through screening and awareness, as well as improvements in treatment. “She would get more radiation flying cross-country in an airplane”.

The Breast Care Center Director Susan Smith says over the last ten years, medical technology has improved greatly in terms of early detection and treatment for the disease. Approximately one in eight women in the US will develop invasive breast cancer sometime in their lives.

That event raised more than $4,000 for breast cancer research and launched the statewide program.

WOMEN need to place more emphasis on their health, says Fiji Cancer Society Western branch volunteer Milika Wata-Marshall.

Local health experts want women to know that a diagnosis is not a death sentence. Because of Mrs. Ford’s openness, women were motivated to get their first mammograms.

Dr. Shepardson also helped separate fact from fiction when it comes to breast cancer.

“Many women, whether they are working or not, have a tendency to focus on work and their families that their health is put on the backburner”, she said. “So, usually if you find something we’ll check it out anyway”, said Taylor.

This year’s Brake for Breakfast event was held from 6:30-8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Sycamore Township.

Another way to detect breast cancer early is to get your annual well woman exam from you doctor.