Last October, Elizabeth Daley felt a lump in her breast.

Teresa Meisinger describes herself as “one of these women that definitely goes for her yearly mammogram.”

PLAINS TWP. — Monica Horvath did all the right things.

PITTSTON — Paint Pittston Pink wrapped up this year’s events on Saturday with several races that brought residents to its Main Street for competition and camaraderie, while raising money for breast cancer research.

This year an estimated 287,850 individuals will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. As one of the most common women’s cancers, the disease affects one in eight women.

Almost half of women have dense breast tissue. If you’re one of them, here’s what to know.

As we age, a few things in life are certain: taxes, colonoscopies and, for women, mammograms.