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Check yourself
Published: 10/9/2007 5:10 PM
Last Modified: 10/9/2007 5:10 PM

Not that it’s any of my business, but when’s the last time you had a mammogram? Or did a self exam?

A reader e-mailed me this morning regarding Breast Cancer Awareness Month and how important it is to be aware. So just in case some of you might be quite busy and use that as an excuse not to take care of yourself, I thought I’d pass along her words of caution.

“Women need to know,” said Ms. Reader, who’d prefer to be referred to as Tulsa Angel – “like a guardian angel for Tulsa women.” She’s a breast cancer survivor who encourages women to do self breast exams.

“ I had a routine mammogram, but what I had was found in a biopsy from a breast reduction and did not show up in the mammogram,” she wrote, adding that she’ll go in very soon for her mastectomy breast reconstruction.

In case you’ve never done a self-exam, Komen for the Cure’s Web site has step-by-step instructions in English, Spanish and Hindi. Check it out at www.tulsaworld.com/komenexam.

Note to guys: You should check yourself, too. The Testicular Cancer Resource Center’s online site has a great guide – see it at www.tulsaworld.com/TCRCexam.

Peace, love and awareness … xoxo


Reader Comments 8 Total
REV. JOHN HIGGINS (5 years ago)

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Jason Ashley (5 years ago)
I'll check that out, Rev. Higgins -- thank you!
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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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