Page 2 October 16, 2014 TORRANCE TRIBUNE Tartars, Saxons Face Off Business Briefs Photos by Peter Thornton, jp.thornton58@gmail.com For more photos see Face Off, page 7 Local Breast Cancer Survivors Participate in “Dance or Bust” Event Breast cancer patients, survivors and staff from Torrance Memorial Medical Center’s Vasek and Anna Maria Polak Breast Diagnostic Center joined “Dancing with the Stars’” pro dancer Anna Trebunskaya for a salsa lesson. Dancing has been shown in studies to be an effective form of therapy for cancer patients as it improves well-being and self-esteem, which helps to boost immunity. Torrance Memorial Medical Center recently became the first medical center in the South Bay Breast cancer survivors and Tory Blasek and Adrienne Slaughter. Photo by Christina House. to offer Digital Breast Tomosyntheses (DBT) or 3D Mammography technology, for detecting early stage breast cancers in women with radiographically dense breast tissue. DBT makes it possible to detect early stage tumors previously undetectable with 2D mammography alone. This is critical for those with dense breast tissue because their breast cancer risk it three times higher than those with lower density tissue. See Business Briefs, page 3 Torrance Tartars take the field. #24 Jacob Flick fights the tackle within inches of the goal line. Torrance High color guard performs during halftime. Breast cancer survivors Catalina Cudanas and Monique Tiffany. Photo by Christina House.
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