breast cancer

October is an important month for Women.

A press release says “DJ Blankenship is a Yakima resident whose passion for raising funds for breast cancer began three years ago

Roher says breast cancer has become highly treatable with an increase in people surviving over the past ten years of 90 percent.

Nancy Roher is Director of Virginia Mason Memorial Hospitals' Ohana Mammography Center who says women in their early 20s need to do self exams and have a mammography beginning at age 45 and then every year after that.

Bastinelli says the department is selling pink ribbons for $20 with the proceeds going to Ohana Mammography Center in Yakima.

Apparently it’s quite simple: exercise reduces a woman’s risk of breast cancer.

Breast cancer does not discriminate, even men can fall victim. Although men are much less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer it does happen. Males comprise about 1% of breast cancer diagnosis each year. According to the Susan G. Komen foundation for the cure, 2,140 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 and of those approximately 450 will die from the disease. There have been a fe