Expanded Baptist Imaging Center: Michelle Peppers Says Get Your Mammogram!

Paducah’s Michelle Peppers can testify to the importance of mammograms. She was one week shy of her 40th birthday when a mammogram revealed cancer in her right breast. She had no family history of the disease.

“I woke up with pain shooting through my right breast and found the mass,” she says.

After a mammogram and other tests at Western Baptist Hospital, she began treatment for breast cancer and now, at 42, she feels like, “I’m just now getting back to normal.” Yay, Michelle!

One in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. The good news: There’s a lot of progress in imaging, digital mammography and MRI, combined with individualized therapies, that will help save the lives of beautiful women everywhere. The key, though, is mammography.

Gals, we gotta get smushed.

Take the girls on an annual field trip to the expanded Baptist Imaging Center at 2705 Kentucky Ave., located next to Western Baptist. Five technologists perform more than 650 mammograms each month in the new mammography suite, which features a spa-like atmosphere and art work by local breast cancer survivors. Other services included in the $9.2 million expansion are MRI, PET, CT, ultrasound and nuclear medicine. Patients can expect same-day results from radiologists on-site.

Mammies takes a few minutes of discomfort, then it’s back to work or, better year, cocktail hour. Do it every year — your girls will thank you for it later.

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