October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month: 5 Things To Do

Try the dainty gold leaf necklace from the National Breast Cancer Foundation on for size.

The mobile coach is the latest addition to an already existing fleet of four mobile vans that travel throughout California screening women for breast cancer at major companies like Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as radiology clinics, organizations, churches and health fairs.

“Breast cancer is so prevalent in our community”, Arias said.

The foundation reports that about 70 percent of women age 40 and older receive regular mammograms, the single most effective screening tool to find breast cancer early.

This year, PAK’nSAVE is turning its iconic yellow number 8 wire television advertisement pink in the ten days leading up to the appeal and has pledged $25,000 to kick start the appeal.

It is our way of supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with a portion of the pink newspaper proceeds being donated to the West Cancer Center. We’re usually the first people that diagnose it. So, it’s something near and dear to our heart. “The most important thing is to get that money to the American Cancer Society”.

Donning a pink shirt, Jimmy Kendrick joined mayors across the area in pledging support for the Coastal Bend Day of Pink to bring awareness to breast cancer.

These machines are better at detecting tumors especially in women with dense breasts and provide for fewer false-positives in cancer detection, she said.

Several people gathered at the Herrin Hospital for the releasing of the pink balloons, celebrating survivors, remembering those who lost their battle to breast cancer, and those family members who have been affected.

About 0.2 percent of women, or one in 500, carry a harmful mutation in the BRCA1 or the less risky BRCA2 gene (BRCA stands for BReast CAncer susceptibility).

Bettis said her family is what motivated her to survive.

She added: “We have a screening service where the cancer is being picked up earlier”.

“Don’t be nervous. It’s a 15 minute exam from the time you enter to the time you leave that could literally save your life”, Weyer said.