Posts Tagged ‘Charleston Breast Center’

What’s in a Name?

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Save the ta-tas.

Don’t let cancer steal second base.

Check your boobies.

Women have all kinds of nicknames for our breasts. We at the Charleston Breast Center want to save all of your knockers, jugs, melons and girls. So whether you call them your cans, puppies or coconuts, we encourage you to check them yourself every month and have a mammogram every year after you turn 40 (even earlier if breast cancer runs in your family). If you can’t afford to get a mammogram, we even have programs to make these life saving scans available to you.

Many of you post quotes and sayings in your Facebook and Twitter status to bring awareness to certain causes. You may have even posted your bra color a few months ago to raise awareness for breast cancer prevention and treatment. We’d like to up the stakes a little. The Charleston Breast Center is having a fun little contest to raise breast cancer awareness. Here’s how you can join the fun:

1)      Post the following phrase in your Facebook status today through Thursday, March 25:  @Charleston Breast Center  YOUR FUNNY NAME FOR BREASTS

2)      Copy and paste this email into a Facebook message or email and send to 10 of your friends.

3)      Each person who participates who lives in South Carolina will be entered to win a $25 gift certificate for Bits of Lace, a lingerie store on King Street!

4)       The winner will be announced via Facebook and Twitter on March 26, 2010. You must be a fan of the Charleston Breast Center fan page on Facebook to win.

If you’re a Twitterer, join in the fun there too and tweet: your #bestbreastnames with @Positively_Pink in your tweet.

Need a little inspiration? Check out this video of some of the best nicknames women around Charleston came up with!


Whatever you call them, just get them checked!

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What Does it Cost to Save a Life?

Monday, March 8th, 2010

It’s unfortunate.

In 2009, the number of Americans without health insurance rose to 46.3 billion due to the recession. That means more and more women are struggling to afford a mammogram, something that just might save their life. Breast cancer doesn’t care about income.

While the Charleston Breast Center is not a free medical clinic, we do have programs available to women who are struggling to pay for their annual mammogram and you can help us ensure this critical test is not missed!

A screening mammogram costs about the same as going out to eat 10 times. What if your family decided to eat in for a month and donated the money saved to the Charleston Breast Center?

Visit our Web site for more information on how to donate … and maybe save a life.

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Beauty Is… Loving a Breast Cancer Survivor

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

One of our patients passed along this beautiful story to us.

Kailyn B. Wrighten, a second grader at Howe Hall AIMS, was asked to write an essay in a district-wide writing contest. The theme of the contest was “Beauty is…”. She chose to write about something very personal and special to her, an aunt who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. This very insightful young lady won first place. Here is her essay:

Beauty is…

Beauty is Love, Beauty is Family, Beauty is Courage. This is a story of my aunt Natalie and me. My Aunt Natalie had breast cancer for three and a half years. When I heard she had breast cancer, I felt so sad. I did not feel good. I was so scared I cried day and night. I felt better when she was out of the hospital. Now she is better and I keep her in my heart every day. But even though she is not here in South Carolina, she is very close to me.

I have been going to the cancer walks in Charlotte, N.C. This year I finished the whole race with my Aunt and her Team Natalie. I was tired. I knew she had the strength to fight her breast cancer, so I kept going. When we first got there, we saw a lot of people and a lot of people wearing the most important color of the race pink.

At the end of the race we went to the balloon ceremony. You get your own balloons of how many years you have had breast cancer in your life. They also had a lady there who was a one day survivor. Then there was an old lady who was standing right behind me who released 50 balloons!!!!!!!

(Now my favorite color has a special meaning to me!)

Beauty is pink, Beauty is God, Beauty is courage, Beauty is passion for Life!

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Who’s Reading Your Mammogram? It Matters!

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Would you go to a big box supercenter like Wal-mart for a tailored suit? You shouldn’t go to a one-size-fits all center for your mammogram either, because just exactly who is looking at your mammogram?

Just as Wal-mart cannot possibly offer the absolute best quality in every item it carries (they’d never have such great prices), all radiology departments don’t offer the same specially-trained radiologists as the Charleston Breast Center. In fact, radiologists in larger institutions often work in rotations, which means that the person who is reading your mammogram may have excellent credentials … in neurology!

Our physicians have done additional fellowships to train them to read breast tissue – and is literally all they do all day long. And the proof is in the pudding! Their ability to “catch” a questionable spot on your mammogram or breast MRI rates higher than the national average, in fact twice the national average. And we’re the only center in coastal South Carolina designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.

We’re proud that we know breasts backwards and forwards! SO… who’s reading your mammogram?

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Makeovers for Mammograms: Doing What You Can With What You Have

Monday, February 8th, 2010

The moxie and strength of some our patients is truly amazing. This past weekend Leslie Crawford Moore and five of her coworker and girlfriends held a Makeovers for Mammograms party here at the Charleston Breast Center. Leslie is a professional makeup artist with Moore Makeup and has just finished chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer that she found herself while doing her own self-exam. Her next step is radiation.

But this past weekend she refocused her energy to raise money for a cause she believes in. On Saturday February 6, Leslie and her talented buddies, Margaret, Elizabeth, Kelly, Laura and Pam, donated their time and performed 30-minute makeovers for a nominal fee, which they presented to the Charleston Breast Center. You should have seen the beautiful ladies leaving the center! We’d like to thank Moore Makeup for their generous donation.

These ladies didn’t have a lot of money to give away… but they used their talents and a little ingenuity to do more good together than they could have done individually. What are you good at and how could it benefit someone else? Pay it forward.

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