October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This is Breast Cancer Awareness month. It's a disease that more and more women are now surviving thanks to early detection. Nancy Roher is Director of Memorial Hospitals' Ohana Mammography Center who says women in their early 20s need to do self exams and have a mammography beginning at age 40 and then every year after that. "And the reason every year is because when you have those exams and the radiologists can look at them. They can easily identify something that's changed if they have background mammograms." Roher says breast cancer has become highly treatable with an increase in survivorship over the past ten years of 90 percent.