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‘Early Bird’, the Mary Bird Perkins mammogram van is parked in the giant parking lot of a free clinic in a working class area of Baton Rouge. It is an efficient beehive of activity. Women are seated under a breezy temporary pavilion while they wait for their turn to receive a free mammogram.

Inside the van we meet Chiquita, who is eager to share her story and relay her message of thanks to The Breast Cancer Relief Foundation and Mary Bird Perkins for the opportunity to receive free mammograms.

Chiquita:

She is fifty years old now and was almost forty when she had her son. He’s her only child and her pride and joy.  Staying in good health is very important to her; she wants to be there for him as long as she can.

Mammograms are not something she can afford on her own, and she has received free screenings from the Early-Bird mammogram van in past years. So today when she heard a public service announcement on the radio that the van would be parked in her neighborhood, she ran over right away!

Chiquita tells us that this is such a great program – always convenient and they always follow up and help with all her questions. She is very happy to have one less stress in her life – one less thing to worry about!

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