Why I said yes

Dr. Margiori Rodriguez  

When you decide to go for whatever screening test is recommended to you, that's a way to show up for yourself and be proactive about your health. Prevention is a very small but very important step towards staying healthy. Even if you are 40 years old, have no symptoms and have no family history. You never know what's going on inside of you.  

For all my patients, I recommend—depending on their age, what stage of life they are at and their risk factors—that they should be willing to go and get screened for cancer. That's why those guidelines are there, and that's why we have those recommendations. We know there is an increased incidence of cancer in younger patients, even when they don’t have any risk factors. If we have the possibility of getting those done, then I think everybody should take advantage of it. 

Megan Smith

I'm Megan Smith, and I am the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for the Parkview Packnett Family Cancer Institute. I think it's important that our patients and our community are more aware of cancer screening. We never love to see our friends, our neighbors and our community going through this battle. The more we can catch cancer early and prevent it, is a win for all of us.

This campaign is meaningful to me because cancer touches so many pieces of our lives, and we see that as patients are diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer, it can devastate not only them, but the people that love them and take care of them. So the more we can catch early-stage cancer early and treat it, the better.

Taylor Quintanilla

My name is Taylor Quintanilla, and I am one of the nurse leaders on the infusion floor. I'm here today to help patients be a little bit more aware and familiar with what they're walking into when they come to see us at PFCI.  

I agreed to be a part of this because I think it's important that patients feel like they can kind of put a name to the face of who they're going to be spending their time with whenever they come see us. I've had a lot of people close to me benefit from cancer screening, so I think it's important that if you suspect something, you get it checked out.

Dr. Joshua Leichty

Cancer will affect everyone and has affected everyone in some way, probably. If one woman sees this, who's not going to see me in the office, but then decides to see someone else, that's already made a difference.

I have a wife and three boys. It's very important to me that I show up for things like this so that they show up for things that they need to do in the future.

My wife actually has to get some screenings that are a little bit off the normal guidelines, just because of some family history. So, I kind of know how difficult it is for women to have to go to mammograms and get different screenings. That's why I show up.