Don't Forget to Call Your Buddy!!!!

Good Morning Buddies,

Thursday, August 9th is Buddy Check 9 Day. Pick up the phone, email, or text message your Buddies and remind them about the importance of a breast self exam, mammogram and clinical exam in the fight against breast cancer.
There is no way to prevent a cancer diagnosis, but Early Detection can save your life!. If caught in the earliest stage, breast cancer is 95% curable.

In my Buddy Check 9 report Thursday at 5am, a new device to help doctors make the earliest, most accurate diagnosis. It's called the HALO PAP. Capitol Hill Ob/Gyn, Dr. April Rubin, is the only Washington area physician using the HALO PAP as part of her clinical exams. The HALO PAP has the potential to detect abnormal cancer cells 8-10 years before anything would show up on a mammogram. Current screening methods are about finding lumps. Dr. Rubin says the HALO PAP is about detecting cancer before it even exists. Listen to one of her comments.

Is the HALO PAP going to replace standard mammography anytime soon? Dr. Rubin says no. "Right now they are two different, but complimentary approaches to the same problem."

Please watch 9 News Now at 5am for this special Buddy Check 9 report on the HALO PAP and share it with your Buddies.

Later on 9NEWS NOW at 9am, you'll want to see my LIVE interview with Dr. Shawna Willey, director of the Ourisman Breast Center at Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The subject will be Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Dr. Willey will be joined by an IBC survivor.
9NEWS NOW at 9am will show you what the symptoms look like in an IBC breast, plus the latest on treatment, and the prognosis for someone with this often misdiagnosed disease. It is a segment you won't want to miss and one you'll definitely want your Buddy to see. And here's a link to the IBC Research Foundation website.

Don't forget. Call your Buddy now.

Andrea