HDH hosts annual Brake for Breakfast
More than 500 women drove through the Brake for Breakfast event at Highland District Hospital on Thursday morning.
Participants received a free continental breakfast to go, including a cranberry muffin from White’s Cake Box.
Greeted by members of the Imaging Center and Cancer Care Services, participants received educational information about breast cancer, and give-aways in a pink gift bag, according to Misty Campbell, mammographer at the hospital’s Imaging Center.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers. The chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman’s life is a little less than 1 in 8. Over 230,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women in 2013, according to the American Cancer Society.
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The staff of Highland District Hospital would like to remind women that a screening mammogram can be scheduled, without a physician’s referral, by patients who are 35 years of age or older.
Women must be symptom free, not pregnant or breast feeding. Appointments can be made by calling the Imaging Center at 937.393.MAMMO (6266). Women with symptoms will need a physician referral for a diagnostic mammogram.
No-cost mammograms are provided by the hospital through a grant by the Komen Foundation of Cincinnati. To qualify, you must: have no insurance, be 40 years of age or older, and 250% under the federal poverty guidelines. If you have questions about eligibility, please call 937.840.6512.
The HDH staff would like to thank the women who took a moment to drive through and participate in the event. HDH is proud to partner with them to become “one less” breast cancer statistic.