What Are Your Risk Factors

We lose our mothers, sisters and friends to breast cancer every day.  According the the North Carolina Center for Health Statistics, 9,772 women in North Carolina will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year.  Of those diagnosed, 1,391 will die of breast cancer in 2015.  

Early diagnosis saves lives.  Ninety-six percent of women who find and treat breast cancers early will be cancer-free after five years.  

Regardless of family history or risk factors, all women should be screened for breast cancer with a breast self-exam, a clinical breast exam or a mammogram. Please talk with your primary health care provider about the screening that is right for you.

Don't let money stand in your way.  The Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP) can help.  As a single parent of two children,  Rhonda Wellman was unprepared for breast cancer.  She heard of BCCCP through a friend and what she thought was going to be a routine checkup through BCCCP, turned into a breast cancer diagnosis and saved her life.

If you or someone you know might qualify for BCCCP, please call them at 250-6006 today.

Check out the flyer below to learn more about the risk factors involved in breast cancer.