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Harris Health rolls out $1M mobile unit to screen 6K women for breast cancer
Read full article: Harris Health rolls out $1M mobile unit to screen 6K women for breast cancerHarris Health System rolled out a brand new 45-foot mammography mobile unit with the goal of screening about 6,000 women a year for breast cancer. The $1 million mobile unit will take 3D mammography screening capability to neighborhoods across the county.
When to begin mammograms, why you shouldn’t use COVID-19 as an excuse to skip them
Read full article: When to begin mammograms, why you shouldn’t use COVID-19 as an excuse to skip them“Whenever we diagnose breast cancer early, the cure rate is above 90%,” said oncologist Dr. Philip Salem. Kylene Beers, of The Woodlands, said doctors found her breast cancer early. “If you diagnose breast cancer early you can cure it,” Dr. Salem said. Cancer is going to keep moving forward and do what it knows how to do, which is reproduce, reproduce, reproduce. Patients who put off mammograms and any cancer screenings could be putting themselves at serious risk.