Daily News | Temple and Fox Chase are offering free mammograms April 1
Pennsylvania Sen. Majority Leader Kim Ward speaks about her breast cancer treatment at a Mar. 15 event at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia announcing a free mammogram day April 1.Fall 2020 wasn’t exactly a convenient time for Pennsylvania Sen. Kim Ward to go in for a mammogram.
“I’m really glad I didn’t skip that mammogram — and I hope others don’t,” Ward, 60, said Tuesday at an event outside Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia to launch a new public health campaign urging women to get tested. All health insurance policies must fully cover screening mammograms for women over 40 — a requirement of the Affordable Care Act — but not everyone has insurance. So as part of the initiative, Fox Chase, Temple Health and the PA Breast Cancer Coalition will offer free 3-D mammograms on April 1 to the first 20 people who sign up.
“Early detection saves lives. Mammograms save lives. We want to make sure uninsured and under-insured women have access to 3-D mammograms,” said Pat Hapin-Murphy, president of the PA Breast Cancer Coalition. Breast cancer accounts for about a third of new cancer cases among women, but if caught early, has a 99% 5-year survival rate. Routine mammograms, which scan breast tissue for abnormalities, are recommended for women age 40 and older. Younger women may benefit from mammograms if they have a family history of breast cancer or breast tissue that is dense or fibrocystic.
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