Friday, the Lady Flames volleyball players sported pink T-shirts throughout the day reading “Dig Pink” as the team recognized National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Many in the crowd of 700 wore pink as well in support of medicine’s race to […]
Read moreOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and organizations all over the country are passionately working to raise awareness of the importance of annual mammograms. Mammograms Annually A Must (M.A.A.M.) is a local volunteer group founded by the Centra Foundation dedicated to doing just that. M.A.A.M. was founded in 2003 and has successfully provided over 1,500 mammograms for women in the […]
Read moreIt is never easy to muster up the strength to stay calm and focused when you hear of your parents getting sick. It is even harder to hold yourself together when you hear that your mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but Liberty hockey player Luke Aitken said he gained strength and a new appreciation for his mother when […]
Read moreHere are some crazy facts: according to cancer.org, approximately 192,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year in the United States, accounting for one in every four cancer diagnoses in American women. Men are 100 times less likely to be diagnosed, at the rate of one in every 1,000. Over 40,000 women die each year from the disease, as […]
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One moment can change everything. One test, one result and one diagnosis can alter the life of an individual and their family forever. Heila Radtke was in her last year of high school, preparing for Liberty University, when her mother, Gil, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2005. “The doctor came to our house to talk because the cancer was […]
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