breast cancer

May is Mammography Month 2025 in Pennsylvania
Local News, News, PA State News
May 06, 2025
HARRISBURG — Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward, R-39, along with co-sponsors Sen. Tina Tartaglione, D-2, and Sen. Frank Farry, R-6, announced a Se...
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Your mammogram is abnormal. What’s next?
Lifestyles
Oct 22, 2024
DuBOIS — While the majority of women who get their annual mammograms will receive normal results, approximately 10% will be told that the radiologist ...
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Self-exams can detect breast cancer early
Lifestyles
Oct 09, 2024
DuBOIS — In the United States, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, but when caught in its earliest stages, the 5-year relative survival...
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Early detection is an important defense against breast cancer
Bradford, Entertainment, Lifestyles
RACHEL RAPHAEL, M.D., F.A.C.S. Special to The Era 
Oct 12, 2019
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We should take this month to understand the disease, its risks and symptoms. Statistics show a one in eight ...
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Bradford City firefighters free two boys from grate
Local News, Online Features
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Oct 08, 2019
Bradford City firefighters helped free two boys who got stuck in a grate Monday evening in Callahan Park. Capt. Mike Scrivo of the Bradford City Fire ...
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Pink Pumpkin Project awards scholarships
Bradford, Local News, News
KATE DAY SAGER kdsager@bradfordera.com 
Jul 04, 2019
ALLEGANY, N.Y. — For the third year in a row, scholarships from the Pink Pumpkin Project organization were awarded to deserving high school students w...
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Breast cancer tests and surgery available on the local level
Local News, News, Online Features
KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter kdsager@bradfordera.com 
Oct 13, 2018
Over the past decade, the number of breast cancer surgeries performed in Pennsylvania have stayed relatively consistent. That’s the word from the PA H...
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Breast cancer by the numbers
Health, Physical Health, Women
Sep 17, 2013
• 1 in 8 American women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime • 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed this year • 6...
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Your support system
Health, Physical Health, Women
Sep 17, 2013
Look Good, Feel Better A group that teaches beauty techniques to cancer survivors (800) 395-5665 LookGoodFeelBetter.org Susan G. Komen for the Cure A ...
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The Physical Changes of Breast Cancer
Health, Physical Health, Women
Erin Golden 
Sep 17, 2013
She had survived the unthinkable, but Tameka Dickerson couldn’t see herself as a triumphant breast cancer survivor. At 28, the disease put her life in...
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