Oct. is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This way, she gets the chance to explain them the importance of self-exams and mammograms in order to prevent and early detect this life-threatening disease. Sutton, her sister, and her mother are all breast cancer survivors.

“I go back to the radiology”.

When Carrie Baker, DO, an emergency medicine physician at Kettering Health Network, found a lump in her breast during a self-exam past year, she was in denial at first.

The survey, conducted in September, included 1,500 interviews of women ages 30-65 who work for large companies and 51 employee benefits managers at large companies.

“I felt a lump in my breast, but it was when the recession hit”, she said. “Uhm, what do you say?” “My husband and I lost our jobs and couldn’t get insurance”.

Jackson said we have tried different things over the years and this year we wanted to stretch it out a bit and chose to come to the mall and open the event up to different vendors and have a health fair and educational awareness atmosphere. “And that’s it, in a nutshell”.

No one wants to hear that they have breast cancer. “There was no other, option B”.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women around the world.

According to the American Cancer Society, survival rates average around 90-percent for those who catch the disease in its earliest stages.

Her late father motivated and became her “guiding force” as she battled the cancer and endured chemotherapy.

“Denial, anger, stress, anxiety, sadness, and hope are some of the emotions survivors have gone through when learning about their cancer diagnosis”. Sometimes, you have to create it for yourself.

“I saw the amount of people there and the ribbon – it’s mind boggling”, she said. “So some of the fear they might have about how much treatment they’ll need is going to be a lot less if they get it done early”.

“We are pleased to partner with the City of Parma in raising awareness about breast cancer risk”, said UH Parma Medical Center President Kristi Sink.

Lebamoff says while he was the only man at Tuesday’s event, all proceeds raised from go towards the Real Men Wear Pink campaign with the American Cancer Society.

Join the NewsChannel 7 team this Saturday at Aaron Bessant Park.

Last year, over 200,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer were diagnosed among United States women.