October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and in support, the Flathead Valley community volunteer effort coordinated with Kalispell Regional Healthcare, North Valley Hospital, and the Flathead City-County Health Department is going to turn the town Pink!
Turn the Flathead Pink is an annual activity sponsored by Save A Sister to raise community awareness by asking businesses and individuals to decorate their business in pink and wear pink to show support for October Awareness Month.
Fact: One in 8 women will be stricken with Breast Cancer in her lifetime.
Fact: Only 49% of women in Montan are having screening mammograms as recommended by the American Cancer Society, nationwide is 66%.
If you are a woman, age 40 or over, please have a mammogram annually to help reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer by up to 40%. Early detection does save lives!!
If you need help: Save A Sister can help! We have partners in the Flathead Valley that can help you with your physician appointment and mammogram costs. Also, we funds to help pay for your mammogram if you do not have health insurance. So...do not let funding stand in the way! Call 752-7524 or 1-877-399-0384.
Join us on October 5th and Turn the Flathead Pink!!!
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