ISLAND PARK — The All Women’s Rally 4 A Reason Committee, led by Tania Phillips of Mountain Mayhem, will host the Portneuf Medical Center’s MammoBus on Thursday and Friday, June 11 and 12.
The bus contains state-of-the-art mammography equipment operated by highly qualified technicians. The committee will use money it raised at the January 2009 Rally 4 A Reason snowmobile event and from other sources to help as many women in Island Park as possible obtain a free or reduced cost mammogram.
Interested women will make their appointments through the Island Park Medical Clinic, and the MammoBus will be parked at the clinic. Appointments will take place Thursday afternoon and evening and Friday morning and early Friday afternoon.
A fun event is also planned while the bus is in town Stay tuned for details.
Lakeside Lodge has generously donated accommodations for the Portneuf team.
Excluding cancers of the skin, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, accounting for more than one in four cancers diagnosed in U.S. women. Around 200 Idaho women die of breast cancer every year. Nationally, one in eight women develops breast cancer every year and 33% of those die from it. Regular screenings for cancer are the best defense in battling the disease.
Breast cancer incidences generally increase with age. Nationwide in 2000-04, 95% of new cases and 97% of breast cancer deaths occurred in women aged 40 and older, and the median age at the time of breast cancer diagnosis was 61 years.
If you need a mammogram, please mark June 11 and 12 on your calendar and watch the Island Park News for the announcement of when the appointments will be scheduled — the appointment calendar will be open for one week either in late May or the first week of June. - Courtesy of Island Park News
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