Today is: National Mammography Day

Taking place during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Mammography Day exists to remind and encourage women to regularly schedule a mammogram, and to talk to their doctor about what interval of time between mammograms is best for them. The day highlights the need for both education about mammograms and access to them. A mammogram is an X-ray of breast tissue. Mammograms are able to detect cancer in a way other methods may not be able to: breast cancer is sometimes hard to diagnose in early stages, and in some cases, mammograms may detect cancer two years earlier than a woman would detect it by self-examination or a doctor would find it with a clinical breast examination. This is crucial because the risk of death is reduced when cancer is found in its early stages. 

Source: Checkiday.com.