October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The manager of the Arrington Comprehensive Breast Center shared how their mission is early detection.
“We just want to encourage women to get in there, get your mammogram done,” Lindsey Kennelly said. “It doesn’t take very long and you’re in and out and then you’re good.”
Kennelly is the manager of the Arrington Comprehensive Breast Center. She said Covenant has a mobile mammography unit that tours the South Plains. She said it’s in the community four days a week, serving a 120 mile radius of Lubbock.
“We have a lot of rural areas in West Texas and providing that service for those women is a big plus, because some ladies can’t drive 60 miles to get a mammogram, so we would rather take that service to them,” she said.
Kennelly said the American Cancer Society recommends you start screening mammograms at age 40.
“Your chances of survival increase with early detection, also your prognosis is usually better, and then you have a wider array of treatments when you catch it earlier,” she said.
“We just know that women who come in early year and they say ‘thank you so much, you saved my life, because your tenasity to keep taking those pictures to get that right picture or to see those calcifications actually saved my life’,” she said. “It means a lot to me and I know the girls who work here, it means a lot to them too.”