Early detection and healthy habits key in fight against breast cancer

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00:00Breast cancer is extremely treatable if caught early, which is why Kimberly Weidel is determined

00:06to do her part to make sure every woman is screened, whether it's financial burden or

00:11accessibility. Millions of women pass on annual mammograms. We'll see women who will come in for

00:18their mammogram and then they have issues with coming back for their diagnostic. They thought

00:24that was one and done. And then when I start talking about them having to come back,

00:27they weren't expecting that. And so all of a sudden it becomes, oh my gosh, I had to get that. It took

00:32me forever to get a screening. Weidel says despite the reasons, women should make the testing a

00:37priority. It's something that is preventable and it's something that should not take women's and

00:43men's lives anymore. With the resources that we have, there's really no reason that somebody is

00:51going years without getting their mammogram. Weidel adds that many cancers are also preventable.

00:56The biggest mode of prevention, keeping weight in check. I know that's kind of like a hard subject

01:02for people to hear, but it is very easy to see the correlation with not being healthy and having

01:09the extra weight on you when it comes to breast cancer. So being physically active is a way to

01:15avoid it. Also eat fruits and vegetables, avoid alcohol and stop smoking. Smoking actually causes at

01:22least 15 types of cancers and breast cancer is one of them. Weidel says if you're 35 and above,

01:28you don't even need a doctor's order. If you have 20 minutes out of your day that you can spare

01:35to keep yourself healthy and to make sure there's nothing going on,

01:39then we can get it done for you. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Jack Henry.