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Spectrum Health’s Betty Ford Breast Care Services is offering accessible and inclusive early detection screening through the mobile mammography unit at Baxter Community Center on Saturday.
Inclusive, mobile mammogram unit to be running as a part of Pride
A mobile mammography unit is being stationed at the Baxter Community Center June 12.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â During Pride month, Grand Rapids is celebrating with different activities in the area for those who identify as LGBTQ+ and for those who are allies of those within the community. One event is focusing on health this year.
Spectrum Healthâs Betty Ford Breast Care Services is offering accessible and inclusive early detection screening through the mobile mammography unit at Baxter Community Center on Saturday, June 12.
Spectrum Health offering LGBTQ+ inclusive breast cancer screenings at Baxter Community Center
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FILE - In this Thursday, April 16, 2007 file photo, X-ray technician Martina Rosenow, right, and assistant medical technician Marianne Warnholz, demonstrate the mammogram screening program in Berlin. New research from the American Cancer Society shows that breast cancer is now the most diagnosed cancer in the world. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns, File)
and last updated 2021-06-02 12:25:30-04
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Spectrum Healthâs Betty Ford Breast Care Services is offering accessible and inclusive early detection screening at the Baxter Community Center later this month.
A mobile mammography unit will be at the center on Saturday, June 12, according to a news release Wednesday.
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This picture of the mobile mammogram van was taken at the event outside the Bay Mills Health Center, in Bay Mills, Michigan (Bay Mills Indian Community Reservation).
“I recently lost a relative to cancer. I think it’s important to get these screenings done,” said a member of the tribal council of the Hannahville Indian Community in northern Michigan.
But women who live on Indian reservations and in rural areas of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula often find it hard to get screened for cancer. Many women in these communities have low incomes. They often live more than 30 minutes away from a screening facility and have little or no access to public transportation.