Breast cancer is the most common cancer for women -- and the second most deadly. The American Cancer Society estimates more than 200,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed each year.

One in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. If breast cancer is detected and treated before it spreads to the lymph nodes and other parts of the body, the chance of a cure is greater than 85 percent! The likelihood of successful treatment is greatest when breast cancer is detected early, which is why KISS Country and it’s sponsors are KISSing For The Cure.

KISS Country wants to remind our almost 100,000 weekly female audience to take part in routine mammograms and breast examinations by your physician and at home.

The KISS For The Cure Friends for Life program is sponsored by KISS Country and Saint Agnes Medical Center.

What is KISS for the Cure?

KISS for the Cure encourages all participants to recognize that breast self-examination (BSE) is just one part of a very important three-part program for the early detection of breast cancer. The three-part program, physician examination, routine screening mammography, and breast self-examination, is recommended by major national health organizations including the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

KISS Country will even send a simple reminder to do a breast self-exam, BSE, each month.

Join valley women reminding each other to do monthly "Breast Self Exam" by signing up below.

Here’s how it works:

1 – Find your “Friends for Life” – choose family members, friends or co-workers

2 – Mark your calendar – on the 9th of each month, you’ll receive an e-mail reminder

3 - Call your “Friends for Life” - remind each other to do your breast self-exam, BSE. If you find a lump call your doctor.

Click here to download a Breast Self Exam Card
The pdf document explains how to perform a breast self examination.

Click here to download a Breast Self-exam Video
The Susan G. Komen Web site also has an online instructional video
that helps demonstrate the proper method for breast self-examination.

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