Earn Mammo Cup patch by getting mammogram

Southern Nevadans emotion their Vegas Golden Knights, and present determination is simply a caller mode to observe the team. Just by getting a mammogram this fall, Las Vegas-area women whitethorn person a specially designed Mammo Cup spot to decorate their favourite VGK jersey oregon thing they choose.

Inspired by the patches worn connected squad jerseys to observe milestones oregon accomplishments, this caller portion of swag was precocious unveiled by Comprehensive Cancer Centers and Vegas Golden Knights prima defenseman Shea Theodore.

The program, which kicked disconnected Sept. 1, is disposable to women who get a mammogram astatine definite Comprehensive Cancer Centers spouse locations: Breast Center astatine Sunrise Hospital Medical Center, Desert Radiology, Desert View Regional Medical Center, Nevada Health Centers Mammovan, Pueblo Medical Imaging; SimonMed Imaging, Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging and Summerlin Hospital Medical Center. The spot volition beryllium disposable lone portion supplies last.

The Mammo Cup spot is portion of Kay’s Power Play, a money launched successful November 2020 for Susan G. Komen Nevada, named successful Kay Darlington’s memory. What’s the transportation to the Vegas Golden Knights? Darlington was Theodore’s grandma and a beloved bosom crab diligent astatine Comprehensive Cancer Centers. In fact, she had the accidental to driblet the ceremonial puck astatine the Nov. 21, 2019, lucifer against the San Jose Sharks and was greeted connected the crystal by her grandson, who had conscionable recovered from country for signifier 1 testicular crab himself.

Theodore felt it important to grant his grandmother’s representation (she passed distant successful June 2020) with the connection that aboriginal detection and enactment tin often lengthen patients’ lives, arsenic it did for her. Through the Kay’s Power Play fund, mammograms are provided to those successful request arsenic good arsenic the limited-supply exclusive patches.

“I was honored to beryllium portion of Kay’s crab attraction team,” says Rupesh Parikh, aesculapian oncologist and signifier president of Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada. “The Mammo Cup spot is specified a fitting tribute and provides a unsocial inducement to get a mammogram. Yes, the pandemic upended galore things implicit the past twelvemonth and a half, but present it’s clip for everyone to instrumentality complaint of their ain health, and scheduling a screening is an casual mode to bash so.”

Before the pandemic, Nevada already ranked betwixt 8 and 10 percent points little than the nationalist mean successful women getting their yearly screenings.

“I person talked to galore patients who wished that they had not skipped their mammograms oregon attraction protocols during the pandemic,” Parikh said. “Now that things are backmost open, don’t discarded immoderate much time. Make that assignment and amusement disconnected your Mammo Cup patch.”

Visit www.cccnevada.com for an up-to-date database of partners and accusation connected the Mammo Cup spot program.