MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, Mont. -- The news has given a lot of recent coverage to breast cancer. Famous people that seem so healthy falling to the disease, families of women having double mastectomies because they have a gene that indicates they might have cancer some day... Understandably, women get nervous.
Maybe the disease runs in your family, a close friend has had it, you have already had breast cancer and conquered it, or you have read just enough information to make you a little cautious about everything. How do you prevent a disease that attacks someone just because she chose not to have children? Or because her menstrual cycle started early or menopause came on late?
Don't be nervous. Be educated. Come to the Heath and Wellness Center Oct. 19 for Ladies Night - a celebration of women and learning ways to reduce the risks of breast cancer. Learn the truth about the disease - risks and prevention strategies, and why mammograms and self tests are important. Treat yourself to a chair massage by a certified massage therapist, take a walking class or a mini yoga class, and find out how to use the weight training machines in the HAWC.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and the first 25 ladies to enter will be given prize bags. All others will be entered into a raffle for a $500 personal training package or a one-on-one session with the dietician. Bring your friends, your sisters and your daughters! All ladies over the age of 16 are welcome.
For more information, call the HAWC at 731-4292.
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Guest speaker for ladies night
19-year-old Jamie Blatten. Jamie was diagnosed with breast cancer at the
tender age of 13. Hear her amazing story of hope, strength and survivorship.
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