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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month for good reason.

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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Mission Health’s Hope Women’s Cancer Center shares three reasons to get your mammogram:

  1. Breast cancer is common: ~One in eight women will be diagnosed — that’s why routine mammograms are so important.
  2. Catch it early: 99% of patients survive at least five years after diagnosis if unnoticeable symptoms like small lumps are caught early.
  3. Potentially avoid chemotherapy: Earlier-stage patients have less invasive treatment options.

Schedule your mammogram

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