By Goya Dmytryshchak and Beau Donnelly
Yan Yean and Thomastown MPs Danielle Green and Bronwyn Halfpenny celebrated their 50th birthdays by getting mammograms as part of national Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The two politicians, who attended the Epping Breastscreen clinic on Tuesday last week, said the birthday should serve as a reminder for women.
One in nine Victorian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime.
Mill Park resident Maureen Corrigan, 57, survived breast cancer after chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
“If I hadn’t had a breast screen, I wouldn’t have known anything was wrong,” she
said.
» Book at breastscreen.org.au or call 13 20 50.
