{"id":13245,"date":"2012-10-01T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T05:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=13245"},"modified":"2012-09-13T11:54:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:54:19","slug":"post-offices-offer-simple-mammography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/10\/post-offices-offer-simple-mammography\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Offices Offer <br>Simple Mammography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service<\/strong><\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em><strong>Special to the Lehigh Acres \u00a0Gazette<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=13246\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13246\" title=\"Mobile-Mammo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mobile-Mammo-300x208.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mobile-Mammo-300x208.gif 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mobile-Mammo.gif 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Is it time for you to have your annual mammography?\u00a0 The U.S. Postal Service is offering a simple way to get it taken care of!\u00a0 The Radiology Regional Mobile Mammography Bus will be located at various post offices during October.<\/p>\n<p>The following dates and locations are scheduled for the Mobile Mammography Bus:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 4 \u2013 Coco River Post Office, North Naples, 8:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 11 \u2013 North Fort Myers Post Office, 12:00 \u2013 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday, October 22 \u2013 Lehigh Acres Post Office,\u00a0 8:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 22 \u2013 Page Field Post Office, Fort Myers, 2:00 \u2013 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 23 \u2013 Downtown Fort Myers Post Office, 12:00 \u2013 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, October 24 \u2013 Naples Main Post Office, 8:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, October 25, Cape Coral Central Post Office, 9:00 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 29, Tice Post Office,\u00a0 12:00 \u2013 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Mammography is proven preventative healthcare, saving lives and making a difference in the long-term survival of those diagnosed with breast cancer.\u00a0 The baseline mammogram should be performed at age 40, unless the patient is high risk.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile Mammo is a great way to bring the convenience of annual screening to the workplace or your community.\u00a0 Based on census data, approximately 204,000 women in Lee County are of the age to be screened, but only 50,000 women are receiving this preventative healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Walk in service is available but appointments are preferred!\u00a0 Call 239-936-2316 today to schedule your appointment.\u00a0\u00a0 Appointments are typically 20 minutes.\u00a0 Most insurances are accepted, discounted self pay pricing is available.\u00a0 Results will be mailed to the patient and physician within a few working days.\u00a0 The exams are read by local, board certified radiologists, including fellowship-trained Women\u2019s Imagers.\u00a0 Every mammogram is analyzed by computer-aided detection, and then reviewed by the reading radiologist.\u00a0 <strong><em>No prescription is necessary for a screening mammogram.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Zip\u2019s Tip: <\/strong>\u00a0As of July 2012, sales of the Breast Cancer semi-postal stamp has generated over 75.5 million dollars for Breast Cancer Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service Special to the Lehigh Acres \u00a0Gazette Is it time for you to have your annual mammography?\u00a0 The U.S. Postal Service is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}