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Hospitals encourage women to know risk factors during Breast Cancer Awareness Month – Chippewa Valley Post
By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, community reporter/editor Although Breast Cancer Awareness Month ends on Sunday, HSHS Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s hospitals continue to encourage community members to know their risk factors. About one in eight women will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime, according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. The World Health Organization has said breast cancer is now the most common cancer globally. The two HSHS hospitals said in a press release that screening mammograms can help detect breast cancer early. They urged women to talk with their health care providers about the right time for screening mammograms, especially women who are 40 years old or at high-risk. To read more, please click on the headline.
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