Aug 19, 2013 2 min read

Cancer is one word that changes many people’s lives. It can bring pain, hardship and scars.

Someone is diagnosed with breast cancer every two minutes in the United States and it hits one in every eight women.

So what can be done to stop it? The Dancing with a Pink Ribbon project is doing its part in fighting this disease as much as it can.

The Dancing with a Pink Ribbon project focuses on early detection and prevention by using the gold standard of mammography to detect the disease early. Many fatalities may be avoided with yearly mammograms.

Two years ago, Cornerstone Care created the Dancing with a Pink Ribbon project to address the challenges locally. The project uses Cornerstone Care’s mobile medical unit to provide clinical breast exams, education and mammogram referrals in communities throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania. Assistance is also provided to uninsured and underinsured individuals to obtain a mammogram at no cost.

Dancing with a Pink Ribbon project will be at the following locations doing free clinical breast exams and giving scripts for mammograms on its mobile unit:

• Today, from 7 a.m. to noon at the Greene County Fairgrounds

• Wednesday, 5 to 10 p.m. at the fire hall in Carmichaels as part of the King Coal Show

• Aug. 28, from 5 to 10 p.m. at the WWJD Center, 325 Third Street, Waynesburg

• Sept. 10, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. St. Ignatius Catholic Church, 305 Grant Street, Bobtown