Thanks to my friend Ang (Oku) for sending this in:<\/p>\n
\nThree DJs take breast cancer battle to young
\nPhil Kloer – Staff
\nTuesday, October 17, 2000<\/p>\nSix years ago, Star 94 morning DJ Vikki Locke found a lump in her breast. It
\nturned out to be benign, but, she says, “I know what that fear is.”<\/p>\nTonight, Locke joins with two other radio hosts who are normally her
\ncompetition — Leslie Fram of 99X and Porsche Foxx of V-103 — to educate
\nyoung women about breast cancer. And they’ll be on the right platform to
\nreach their young audience — Channel 36, Atlanta’s WB affiliate, which is
\ndonating all its local ad time from 8 to 11 tonight during “Buffy the
\nVampire Slayer,” “Angel” and reruns of “Seinfeld” and “Friends.”<\/p>\nThey’ll talk among themselves and introduce taped vignettes with WB stars,
\nincluding Alyson Hannigan (“Buffy”), Katherine Heigl and Jason Behr
\n(“Roswell”), Nikki Cox (“Nikki”), Leslie Bibb, Ron Lester and Carly Pope of
\n“Popular” and Irene Molloy, Lindsay Sloane and Bonnie Somerville of “Grosse
\nPointe.”<\/p>\n“I don’t believe the message is out there to young women that self-breast
\nexamination is vital,” says Fram of 99X’s “Morning X.”<\/p>\n“We’ve all been told that when you get to be 40, that’s when you start
\nhaving your mammograms,” Fram says. “But no one ever speaks to women in
\ntheir 20s and 30s. I was unaware that there are a lot of women in their 20s
\nwho have had breast cancer. And doctors are not proactive in telling women
\nto do self-exams.”<\/p>\nAccording to the American Cancer Society, a woman’s risk of breast cancer at
\nage 20 is one in 19,608. At age 30, it increases to one in 2,535 and at age
\n40 to one in 217. The five-year survival rate when breast cancer is caught
\nin its earliest stages is 97 percent. October is Breast Cancer Awareness
\nMonth.<\/p>\nFoxx and the other radio hosts also will interview young breast cancer
\nsurvivors on their own shows today to emphasize the message of regular
\nself-exams.<\/p>\n“It’s really something when you hear a young woman say, ‘I’m a breast cancer
\nsurvivor,’ ” says Foxx, who will interview 27-year-old Julia Chriss. “It’s
\ngreat to hear her say, ‘I’m alive today ’cause I caught it early and did
\nsomething.’ ”<\/p>\n> ON THE WEB:<\/p>\n
The Young Survival Coalition: www.youngsurvival.org <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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