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FIRST TIME MOM WITH BREAST CANCER CREDITS
JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL’S BREAST CENTER WITH SAVING HER LIFE
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Three months after having her first child, Rosa Arias Yapur, 34, noticed blood streaming from one of her nipples. She then discovered a lump on her left breast and had a feeling something was terribly wrong.
Yapur, who had no health insurance, came to Jackson Memorial Hospital for help. Doctors at the Roberta Orlen Chaplin Digital Breast Imaging Center at the Taylor Breast Health Center diagnosed her with stage three breast cancer. They performed a mastectomy, removing her left breast. She also underwent successful chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Since being diagnosed and treated in 2012, Yapur has had no signs of recurrence.
“I am so grateful to Jackson Memorial Hospital for admitting me as a patient,” Yapur said. “They saved my life.”
Yapur will share her story during Breast Cancer Awareness Month at the grand opening and ribbon cutting of Jackson Memorial Hospital’s newly renovated Roberta Orlen Chaplin Digital Breast Imaging Center at the Taylor Breast Health Center.
Jackson Memorial’s breast center is one of South Florida’s most trusted institutions for detection, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The newly renovated facility is totally digital, providing physicians with easier and faster access to images. The facility has also been modernized with new technology and more comfortable features for patients.
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Who:
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Rosa Arias Yapur, breast cancer patient; Dr. Ada Romilly, medical director of breast imaging, Jackson Memorial Hospital; Dr. Heather King, attending physician, UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital; Carlos A. Migoya, president and chief executive officer, Jackson Health System; Darryl K. Sharpton, chairman of the Public Health Trust, Jackson Health System; Harvey and Roberta Chaplin, donors to the Roberta Orlen Chaplin Digital Breast Imaging Center at the Taylor Breast Health Center
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What:
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A young mother who is a breast cancer survivor shares her story at the grand opening of the newly renovated Roberta Orlen Chaplin Digital Breast Imaging Center at the Taylor Breast Health Center.
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When:
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October
01, 2013, 3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
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Where:
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Jackson Memorial Hospital
Ira C. Clark Diagnostic Treatment Center, 1st Floor, Atrium Area
1080 NW 19th St., corner of Northwest 12th Avenue and 19th Street
Miami, FL 33136
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Editor’s Note:
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*Media can park outside of the Clark DTC
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Jackson Health System
1611 N.W. 12th Avenue Miami, FL 33136
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