Ladies: Do Your “Breast” to Self Exam Each Month
Contributed by Ministry St. Michael’s Hospital
Wearing this year’s pink shirts for Breast Cancer Awareness, Ministry Health Care associates along with the Ministry Breast Care team, link pinkies for a promise in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Ministry Breast Care Center staff encourages women to make a pinky promise to do their monthly self breast exams, get an annual clinical breast exams and mammograms. Nearly 20,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year in Wisconsin.
Make a pinky promise with your mom, sister, daughter friend or neighbor. Link a pinky and make a promise today.
About Ministry Health Care
Ministry Health Care is an integrated Catholic health care delivery system serving over 1.1 million people across Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota. Ministry operations generate nearly $2.2 billion in annual operating revenue with 15 hospitals, 46 clinics, and nearly 12,000 employees including 650 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. According to Truven Health Analytics (formerly the health care business of Thomson Reuters), Ministry is ranked among the top 20 percent of health care systems in the country.
Ministry Health Care is sponsored by the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother who founded hospitals in the United States more than 120 years ago to further the healing ministry of Jesus by continually improving the health and well-being of all people, especially the poor.