Norton Healthcare Cancer Screenings
For the third successive year, Norton Healthcare set up cancer screenings at Wayside Christian Mission’s Hotel Louisville for the benefit of the women in our care.
As always, we are grateful, for undetected and untreated breast cancer is a very real threat. According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers. About 1 in 8, that is, 12% of women in our nation will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime. The American Cancer Society's estimates for breast cancer in the United States for 2015 are:
· About 231,840 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women
· About 60,290 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed (CIS is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer)
· About 40,290 women will die from breast cancer
The health, safety, and well-being of the women in our program are of paramount concern; for this reason, we are delighted that our friends from Norton Healthcare have, once again, blessed us with their mobile cancer screen unit and a team caring, compassionate healthcare professionals.
For the third successive year, Norton Healthcare set up cancer screenings at Wayside Christian Mission’s Hotel Louisville for the benefit of the women in our care.
As always, we are grateful, for undetected and untreated breast cancer is a very real threat. According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers. About 1 in 8, that is, 12% of women in our nation will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime. The American Cancer Society's estimates for breast cancer in the United States for 2015 are:
· About 231,840 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women
· About 60,290 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed (CIS is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer)
· About 40,290 women will die from breast cancer
The health, safety, and well-being of the women in our program are of paramount concern; for this reason, we are delighted that our friends from Norton Healthcare have, once again, blessed us with their mobile cancer screen unit and a team caring, compassionate healthcare professionals.
