This week, the 47-year-old actress posted a video of herself at her annual mammogram appointment in light of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which takes place in October. OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH: HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW“Happy October! It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and it’s time for a mammogram,” she says as she appears from behind a curtain in the video. Screening mammograms can also find microcalcifications (tiny deposits of calcium) that sometimes indicate the presence of breast cancer,” it states. The National Breast Cancer Foundation estimates 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime.

Source: Fox News October 17, 2019 20:15 UTC