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Save the tatas by supporting these local and national charities for breast cancer, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

After a three-year battle with breast cancer, Susan G. Komen lost her life to the disease in 1980. Two years later, her sister, Nancy G. Brinker, founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure in honor of her beloved sibling. Since then, the organization has raised more than $2 billion in scientific research and community outreach projects to help in finding the cure to the most common women’s cancer (one that Brinker is a survivor of herself) as well as put the spotlight on this once little-discussed cancer.

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The John C. Lincoln Breast Health and Research Center is setting a new standard for breast imaging and interventional services for women across the Valley. While the center excels at providing routine screening mammograms, we also have the technologies, experience and resources to provide comprehensive breast cancer care. Only 633 of the nation's 8,600 breast imaging centers have earned the Breast Imaging Center of Excellence designation. John C. Lincoln center is just the ninth in Arizona to receive this recognition.

Sitting down with the charming and caring ladies at John C. Lincoln Center inspired Arizona Foothills to spread the word about what women can do to help Breast Cancer efforts.