Project Pink provides cost-free mammograms to women in North Carolina
Project Pink, an initiative headed by North Carolina-based Charlotte Radiology and the Levine Cancer Institute, will provide free mammograms starting Monday, Oct. 8, to uninsured and underinsured women in North Carolina. In 2017, funds for the initiative provided approximately 1,000 mammograms and detected 23 cancers.
Project Pink offers its services using a bus that travels to different areas for convenience to the patients. The bus travels throughout both North and South Carolina. If there are abnormalities detected in the patient's mammogram, Project Pink also pays for the patient’s follow-up biopsy.
“Most of these women, because of limited resources, might not have ever come in and would have found out about the cancer much later when treatment options weren’t as plentiful,” said Shawna Plate, project specialist at Charlotte Radiology in an interview with WBTV.
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As a senior news writer for TriMed, Subrata covers cardiology, clinical innovation and healthcare business. She has a master’s degree in communication management and 12 years of experience in journalism and public relations.