FOUNTAIN SPRINGS - Breast cancer awareness needs to be a year-round matter, but with October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, that focus is intensified, prompting a school and hospital to partner to encourage mammographies.
Saint Catherine Medical Center Fountain Springs and McCann School of Business and Technology will work together in encouraging women to take the test, with special hours on two days set aside for lower-cost mammograms by the hospital, with McCann offering free massages to the first 25 women who register for the test.
The incentive is part of the "Take Care of Your Health, Take Care of You" program, where McCann will provide the massages, with a coupon given to the first 25 women who register.
The mammograms will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 28.
According to the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) website, the first NBCAM program took place in October 1985 as a week-long event to fill the information void in public communication about breast cancer.
To schedule a mammogram or for more information, call Saint Catherine's at 875-6733.
On the Net: http://nbcam.org