According to the American Cancer Society, approximately one in eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. OSF HealthCare Mammography Technologist Jody Henry, reminds women, and men too, to schedule those yearly mammograms this Breast Cancer Awareness Month:
“We just always encourage everybody to come in as soon as possible. You turn 40, that is just the year and age that you come in, age 40, come in and get your mammogram so that we can have yearly mammograms to compare to each other and make sure there is not any changes; just catching breast cancer early is the main thing. Please, get those mammograms. It is very, very important. Remind family members to come get it done and friends. Remind them that early detection is the best.”
Walk-in mammograms can be done on Wednesdays from 1 to 4 pm at OSF Holy Family in Monmouth, as well as Wednesdays from noon to 2:30 pm and the third Saturdays of the month from 8 am to 11 am at OSF St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg.
