A simple bracelet of beads is helping women live healthier lives. Fashioned of about 100 tiny two-millimeter beads, with one 10-millimeter bead in the center, the bracelets serve to remind women to get mammograms.

Early detection is important to breast cancer survivorship and the tiny beads represent the size of a tumor that is detected by a mammogram. Meanwhile, the larger bead represents the size a tumor usually is before it can be detected during a self-breast examination.

Such attractive and unique bracelets are being given by the St. Joseph Mercy Health System’s Vo...

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