YOUR TRAFFIC TO GO. MELISSA: DROPPING OFF THE KIDS, YOU CAN SNAG A FREE BREAKFAST IN HONOR OF BREAST CANCER AWARENESS. IN ABOUT HALF AN HOUR. JOHN: VOLUNTEERS WILL HAND OUT BURRITOS, FRUIT AND ENCOURAGING WOMEN TO GET THEIR ANNUAL MAMMOGRAM. KETV NEWSWATCH 7’S KALE’ SEARCY IS LIVE AT SHADOW LAKE TOWNE CENTER, ONE OF THE THREE LOCATIONS IN THE METRO. >> JOHN AND MELISSA. SET UP IS UNDERWAY. YOU CAN SEE BARRICADES AND CONES, LINING THE PATH TO GRAB ROCKFISH BREEDERS. YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE TENT THEY ARE PUTTING A. THEY ROLLED OFF THE FOOD TO GET READY. IT’S A LIGHTHEARTED EVENT WITH A SERIOUS MESSAGE, NEBRASKA MEDICINE IS USING ' ’BRAKE FOR BREAKFAST’ TO GET MORE WOMEN INTO THEIR DOCTOR’S OFFICE FOR THEIR ANNUAL MAMMOGRAM. THEY WANT TO DRIVE THOSE LOW NUMBERS UP. >> A LOT OF WOMEN HAVE PUT OFF THEIR MAMMOGRAMS AND HAVE PUT OFF THEIR PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR VISITS OR WHATNOT BECAUSE OF FEAR OF THE PANDEMIC. SO I THINK AS THINGS HAVE OPENED UP NOW, THE BIG TAKEAWAY IS THAT WE ARE GOING TO SEE AN INCREASE OF FOLKS COMING OUT AND GETTING MAMMOGRAMS. DOCTORS SAY VISITS SHOULD START AT AGE 40, OR YOUNGER IF THERE IS HISTORY OF BREAST CANCER IN THE FAMILY. YOU CAN GRAB YOUR FREE BREAKFAST WITH A SIDE OF INFORMATION. AGAIN THREE LOCATIONS WILL HAVE THIS DRIVE THRU EVENT. VILLAGE POINTE HEALTH CENTER ON 175TH ST. OMAHA HOME FOR THE BOYS ON NORTH 52ND STREET. OR RIGHT HERE AT SHADOW LAKE NEAR 72ND AND 3-70 HIGHWAY. AGAIN BREAKFAST STARTS AT 6:30, GOING UNTIL 8:30 THIS MORNING REPORTING LIVE KSE NW7 KALE SEARCY, THANK
'Brake for Breakfast': Encourages women to get their yearly mammogram
Nebraska Medicine handed retired escaped breakfast, encouraging women to get their yearly mammogram and rise consciousness for Breast Cancer
Nebraska Medicine is utilizing Brake for Breakfast to get much women into the doctor's bureau for their yearly mammogram and thrust those debased numbers backmost up. It started successful the aboriginal greeting hours connected Friday, volunteers handed retired burritos and caller effect with immoderate accusation connected the broadside successful grant of Breast Cancer Awareness Month."You get to halt astatine everybody's car window, and it makes it a small much personal, conscionable to punctual them to get their screenings and that the caller property is 40," said Breast Cancer Survivor, Nicole Keil.Keil said she recovered a lump erstwhile was conscionable 41 years aged and instantly went to her doctor's office."Don't beryllium afraid, spell get checked out. Also, cheque yourself and conscionable beryllium successful changeless interaction with your physician," said Keil. Surgical Oncologist astatine UNMC, Juan Santamaria said since the pandemic less and less women are coming for their yearly screenings truthful events similar Brake for Breakfast helps thrust up appointments."Some pistillate deliberation that they request to hold for a motion oregon grounds successful their breasts that something's going connected to spell past and get a mammogram that meets the intent of screening mammogram," said Santamaria. He said visits should commencement astatine property 40, oregon younger if there's a past of bosom crab successful the family.
Nebraska Medicine is utilizing Brake for Breakfast to get much women into the doctor's bureau for their yearly mammogram and thrust those debased numbers backmost up.
It started successful the aboriginal greeting hours connected Friday, volunteers handed retired burritos and caller effect with immoderate accusation connected the broadside successful grant of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
"You get to halt astatine everybody's car window, and it makes it a small much personal, conscionable to punctual them to get their screenings and that the caller property is 40," said Breast Cancer Survivor, Nicole Keil.
Keil said she recovered a lump erstwhile was conscionable 41 years aged and instantly went to her doctor's office.
"Don't beryllium afraid, spell get checked out. Also, cheque yourself and conscionable beryllium successful changeless interaction with your physician," said Keil.
Surgical Oncologist astatine UNMC, Juan Santamaria said since the pandemic less and less women are coming for their yearly screenings truthful events similar Brake for Breakfast helps thrust up appointments.
"Some pistillate deliberation that they request to hold for a motion oregon grounds successful their breasts that something's going connected to spell past and get a mammogram that meets the intent of screening mammogram," said Santamaria.
He said visits should commencement astatine property 40, oregon younger if there's a past of bosom crab successful the family.
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