Breast Cancer is treatable and beatable Family Practice, Pediatrics, Prenatal Join us for our annual Pink Pumpkin 5K to help raise awareness! Event Details By Rachel Wilcinot, DO, of Avera Medical Group Sibley & Osceola Regional Health Center October is not only the month where green turns to brown and harvest goes into full swing, it’s also the month you will see NFL players sporting pink for breast cancer awareness. Along those lines, I was asked to write an article about breast cancer screenings.  I never used to be caught dead in pink anything. However, you can now see me quite often wearing the color, in part because I was bit by the breast cancer bug and feel I am now part of the pink fraternity. While neither the color nor the diagnosis make me any more of an expert on screening, it does make me more impassioned and understanding. By now a good portion of the general public knows that breast cancer screening is generally done by mammogram, and that it is recommended to start at age 40. Then, depending on which group of “experts” you obey, mammograms should continue every 1 or 2 years – you can work it [...]