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COMMUNITY
Births
Brooke
Katherine Brown
Daniel and
Elizabeth Brown are proud to announce the birth of their daughter,
Brooke Katherine Brown.
Brooke was
born Nov. 3, 2006, at St. Elizabeth South in Edgewood.
She weighed
6 lb. and 11 oz., and measured 19 and 3/4 inches in length.
Maternal
grandparents are Junior and Kathy Wolpert of Owenton.
Recognizing
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM). Since the program
began in 1985, mammography rates have more than doubled for women
age 50 and older and breast cancer deaths have declined.
This is exciting progress, but there are still women who do take
advantage of early detection at all and others who do not get screening
mammograms and clinical breast exams at regular intervals.
• Women age 65 and older are less likely to get mammograms
than younger women, even though breast cancer risk increases with
age.
• Hispanic women have fewer mammograms than Caucasian women
and African American women.
• Women below poverty level are less likely than women at
higher incomes to have had a mammogram within the past two years.
• Mammography use has increased for all groups except American
Indians and Alaska Natives.
“If all women age 40 and older took advantage of early detection
methods – mammography plus clinical breast exam – breast
cancer death rates would drop much further, up to 30 percent,”
Melody Stafford, RN and Health Planner with the district said.
“The key to mammography screening is that it be done routinely
– once is not enough.”
Your local health department provides mammograms for uninsured women
based on sliding fee schedule.
Please call
Carroll Co.
Health Department, (502) 732-6641, Gallatin Co. Health Department,
(859) 567-2844, Owen Co. Health Department, (502) 484-5736 or Pendleton
Co. Health Department, (859) 654-6985 for more information or to
schedule an appointment.
For more information about NBCAM, please visit www.nbcam.org. For
additional information, please call one of the following toll-free
numbers: American Cancer Society, (800) 227-2345, National Cancer
Institute (NCI), (800) 4-CANCER, Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization,
(800) 221-2141.
The NBCAM program is dedicated to increasing public knowledge about
the importance of early detection of breast cancer.
Fifteen national public service organizations, professional associations,
and government agencies comprise the Board of Sponsors, who work
together to ensure that the NBCAM message is heard by thousands
of women and their families.
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