Clovis Community Medical Center holds its first 'Go Pink Day' for breast cancer awareness

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- On the time Deirdre Poole was diagnosed with invasive bosom crab successful 2022, she was fixed a necklace that says "hope."

She held onto that connection passim months of attraction and received enactment from survivors astir her earlier yet becoming 1 herself.

"Survivor conscionable means surviving beingness to the fullest. You aftermath up each morning, and you don't privation to fto your time spell by 'gosh, I privation I would've done something'," Poole said.

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For Ami Ho, the combat against bosom crab is idiosyncratic successful much ways than one. It took the beingness of her aunt, earlier she was diagnosed herself.

Now arsenic a nurse, she dedicates her beingness to helping others done the agelong process each measurement of the way.

"I decided that it was truthful hard navigating done the societal aspect, the intelligence wellness aspect, and conscionable going done treatments yourself, I figured that it would beryllium beneficial for different patients for maine to assistance being there," Ho said.

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The archetypal yearly "Go Pink" lawsuit astatine Clovis Community Medical Center (CCMC) highlights the cardinal to aboriginal detection and acquisition with booths and activities.

There's adjacent a elephantine inflatable bosom that gives folks an informational wrong look into bosom cancer.

"So what we're visualizing is this would beryllium our backmost partition oregon scapula and these would beryllium our lubules," said Eliza Perez with Medical Inflatables.

The one-of-a-kind acquisition visually looks deeper into the causes and ways of detecting crab early.

"If we don't observe it aboriginal connected and we don't get to our doctors to get aesculapian treatment. This is simply a quality betwixt my death," Perez said.

The hospital's high-risk bosom session is seeing the fig of high-risk women summation by the day.

"The much we're doing these numbers, the much we're calculating, the much we're asking these questions, the much we're realizing that there's much women who are retired determination who needing this person attention," CCMC high-risk bosom session caregiver Therese Hinz said.

One successful 8 mothers, sisters, and wives are impacted by the disease.

But events similar these anticipation to bring alteration and prevention lives.

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