RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- As Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close WakeMed is working to provide life-saving screenings to women in the community.

WakeMed is offering no-cost 3D mammograms to uninsured women over the age of 40 who have not had a mammogram in the last 12 months.

It's a collaborative effort between WakeMed, Siemens Healthineers, and the Raleigh Chapter of The Links, a not-for-profit corporation.

Tonia Richburg was one of the first patients to visit the Mammography Bus on Monday.

She said the mobile mammography community event has been impactful.

"Early detection is the best detection. This way you will know for sure. So cancer does not only come in October, so a person shouldn't wait just till October to come get a breast examination. I think they should g

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