Puppies and yoga mats filled the NovaCare Complex this week as the Philadelphia Eagles partnered with nonprofit Bringing Hope Home for an event highlighting the NFL's Crucial Catch campaign, which promotes early cancer screenings.

The Crucial Catch initiative is a league-wide effort encouraging screenings for cancers that can be detected early, such as breast and colorectal cancers. Doctors say catching cancer early often makes treatment more effective.

For Jillian Louis-McFall, screening was lifesaving.

"I felt the lump in February. It wasn't really there before," she said. "Mammogram in March, and then in March, they said, 'OK, it's cancer.'"

Louis-McFall, who recently completed six months of chemotherapy, said the event was a mood booster.

"It's a pleasure to come out and see t

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