10/16/2025
🎀 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month 🎀
A time to raise awareness, honor survivors, and a reminder to take charge of our health — because early detection saves lives.
🩺 Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines:
✔️ Age 40: Begin annual mammograms (for women at average risk)
✔️ Ten years earlier than the earliest diagnosis in your family (If your grandma was diagnosed at age 40, you would begin breast screening at age 30).
👉 Talk to your doctor about your personal risk factors (like family history) to determine if you should begin screening earlier
🧲 What About Breast MRI?
While not for everyone, breast MRI can be a life-saving screening tool for women at higher risk, and it’s used in addition to mammograms.
✅ You may need a yearly breast MRI if:
-You have a hereditary cancer mutation increasing your risk of breast cancer.
-A close relative has the mutation and you haven't been tested
-Your lifetime breast cancer risk is 20–25% or higher (based on risk models)
-You had radiation to the chest between ages 10–30
-Dense breast tissue
💬 Not sure what your risk is? Give us a call about a risk assessment — it’s quick, easy, and could guide you to the right screenings.
