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La Salle, Grundy women can get free cancer screenings if uninsured or low income · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  LaSalle, Grundy women can get free cancer screenings if uninsured or low
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  income. Written by Emily Beebe. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. October is Breast Cancer
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  Awareness Month, and LaSalle County is offering free screenings for breast and
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  cervical cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women
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  other than skin cancer, and is the second leading cause of cancer
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  deaths among women in the U.S, according to a news release. About
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  one in eight American women will be diagnosed in their lifetime. Roughly
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  280,000 new invasive cases are diagnosed each year. Most women survive if
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  it's caught and treated early, but access to screening, is not equal.
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  Low-income women and women without insurance die from breast and cervical cancer
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  at higher rates, largely because they don't receive regular mammograms and Pap
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  smears according to a news release.
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  Without routine screening, cancers go undetected until later stages when treatment is
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  more difficult and survival is less likely. The LaSalle County Health Department,
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  through the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, offers free mammograms and
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  pap smears to women who qualify and assistance with deductibles for those
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  who are insured, according to a news release. Women may qualify if
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  they are a La Salle or Grundy County resident between the ages
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  of twenty-one and sixty-four. For more information or to schedule a screening,
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  call 815-433-3366.