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Free Breast Seminars Coming to Mount San Jacinto

MSJC on Monday will hold a breast cancer awareness seminar at its Menifee campus, starting at 12:30 p.m.

Beginning Monday, Mt. San Jacinto College will hold a series of seminars on breast cancer awareness. The will be free and open to the public.

According to statistics released by Breastcancer.org, about one in eight women will develop invasive breast cancer in the United States during the course of a lifetime.

“A very good friend of mine recently died from breast cancer, leaving her six kids without a mother,” resident Kim Bower said. “Glad to learn of these important seminars.”

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The director of Michelle’s Place Breast Cancer Resource Center in Murrieta, Kim Goodnough, will be the guest speaker at four of the seminars, according to organizer Kim Marriot.

Seminars will be held at the Menifee Valley Campus Monday from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesday, September 20, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m., in the Technology building in assembly room 927.

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Parking permits are required on both campuses and cost $1. The permits can be purchased from parking lot machines.

For more information call Mount San Jacinto College Dean Laurie McLaughlin at 951-506-6466 or email her at lmclaughlin@msjc.edu

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