(From KGCS)October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and two local groups are doing their part to educate women and help them get much needed screenings. Hope 4 You Breast Cancer Foundation leaders and Zeta Tau Alpha members are guests on this week’s Newsmakers program.
Breast cancer survival rates can be as high as 98 to 100 percent with early detection. The keys to finding cancer early are screenings such as mammograms or ultrasounds and breast self-examination. Hope 4 You President Sharon Clark, and board members Suzanne Hull and Brenlee McPherson-Buerge discuss fundraising efforts to provide those screenings including the Race 4 Hope scheduled for October 20th.
Member of the Zeta Tau Alpha female fraternity share their campus and community efforts to raise awareness and support education about the disease that impacts 1 in 8 women.
Newsmakers is airing nightly at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. the week of October 13 on KGCS-TV and will air at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, October 20 on KOAM-TV. It is also posted on the station’s YouTube channel: KGCS - Missouri Southern State University.
KGCS programming can be seen on channel 21 and is also available on regional cable television systems such as Sparklight, Mediacom and Optimum Internet in Carthage. The station operates as a service of the Department of Communication at Missouri Southern State University.
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