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Live Well Wrap Up 2025

Each year, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center’s Live Well events bring free cancer screenings and health resources directly to communities across Louisiana and Southwest Mississippi.

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“Very, very important”: how a mammogram may have saved Dot Efferson’s life

Even though she didn’t feel like it, Dot Efferson forced herself to go in for her mammogram. It may well have saved her life. In

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Five Years Cancer-Free: Cheryl Michelet’s Journey of Gratitude and Giving Back

This November, Cheryl Michelet will celebrate a milestone she once only dreamed of reaching: five years cancer-free. Diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2020,

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How screening – and a toy poodle – saved a breast cancer patient’s life

Kristie Callais owes her life, at least in part, to her poodle. Callais had no symptoms when, in July 2022, her toy poodle Mocha began

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