Support

AllianceHealth Clinton front desk screener Alexis Merrell points at the breast cancer sticker on her jacket to show her support.

Breast cancer chat

Patient Turner Pease sits and listens as Blakeburn Clinic Nurse Practitioner Ashley Morris explains about some breast cancer information.

A new approach to studying the effects of two common chemicals used in cosmetics and sunscreens found they can cause DNA damage in breast cells at surprisingly low concentrations, while the same dose did not harm cells without estrogen receptors.

Finding breast cancer early and getting state-of-the-art cancer treatment are the most important strategies to prevent deaths from breast cancer.

Hologic machine

AllianceHealth Clinton ultrasound mammographer Holly Drinnon helps a patient with the x-ray process taken by the Hologic mammography machine.

Ultrasound

AllianceHealth Clinton ultrasound mammographer Leanne Parker stands in front of the LOGIQ E9 Ultrasound and holds onto the gel and transducer.

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, elective medical procedures, including cancer screening, were largely put on hold to prioritize urgent needs and reduce the risk of the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings.

Pink out shirts

Clinton High School senior Jenni Soto, left, receives her pink out shirts from Student Council President Edgar Ceballos.

A University of Southern Californialed team of scientists has found that a fasting-mimicking diet combined with hormone therapy has the potential to help treat breast cancer, according to newly published animal studies and small clinical trials in humans.

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