October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this month, Delta Regional Medical Center is helping patients this month with lowered costs.
Only this month, DRMC is offering mammograms for just $99 dollars, which includes the radiology reading.
Program requirements include:
- Patient must have a healthcare provider order;
- The appointment must be scheduled by Oct. 31; and
- Patients must pay with cash, check or credit card. The DRMC staff will not be filing mammograms on a patient’s insurance.
Lisa McIntire, DRMC’s Director of Radiology, said this is the time of the year that many people remember to schedule their mammogram so they are making it easy and affordable so that the patients have this vital screening.
“Our goal at Delta Regional Medical Center is to care for our patients like they were our family so it is time to make the call to their providers,” McIntire said.
According to breastcancer.org, about 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month was founded in 1985 and the aim has and continues to be the promotion of mammography as the most effective weapon to fight breast cancer.
Kim Dowdy, community development manager for DRMC, said Delta Regional Medical Center encourages people to call their health care providers to set up their mammograms during the month of October.
“Every year, DRMC acknowledges breast cancer awareness with hopes of encouraging people receive their mammogram. This is a vital test that can be done right here close to home,” Dowdy said.
For more information, Dowdy can be reached at 662-725-2830. For more information about DRMC, visit deltaregional.com.
Breast cancer facts
According to breastcancer.org, an estimated 268,600 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., in 2019, along with 62,930 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer and about 2,670 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in men in 2019.
About 41,760 women in the U.S. are expected to die in 2019 from breast cancer, though death rates have been decreasing since 1989.
Aside from skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women. In 2019, it’s estimated that about 30% of newly diagnosed cancers in women will be breast cancers.
In women under 45, breast cancer is more common in African-American women than white women. Overall, African-American women are more likely to die of breast cancer. For Asian, Hispanic, and Native-American women, the risk of developing and dying from breast cancer is lower.
As of January 2019, there are more than 3.1 million women with a history of breast cancer in the U.S., including women currently being treated and women who have finished treatment.
About 85% of breast cancers occur in women who have no family history of breast cancer. These occur due to genetic mutations that happen as a result of the aging process and life in general, rather than inherited mutations.
