Our KNX Hero of the Week, Lousine Adjemian, is inspiring people all over Southern California with her light and her dance moves!
Adjemian is the director of mammography training at RadNet, so she trains the people who administer the scans.
She’s also a two-time breast cancer survivor, adding that getting screened at 41 years old saved her life.
“I was pretty healthy with a healthy lifestyle, and it was very incidental finding my first cancer,” she told Heroes host Heather Jordan. “I didn't rush very quickly at age 40 to have my mammogram, but that was the problem because I assumed back in the days I wasn't that well educated about the importance. But I became an advocate. Just go get checked. Do not expect you feel something and then go find out, but just be on it.”
Adjemian also created an annual dance party event to get people moving called "Dance Your Way To Health.”
“The idea of this dance event was exactly to do cardio exercise and I'm doing the opening ceremony,” she said. “I tell [participants] about the importance, about the combination of cardio exercise with weights, and then we educate about the importance of mammograms, and we do one cardio dance altogether with all our invitees. So the idea is to feel how happy you become because when you dance, you are producing endorphins. So it makes you happy. You are dancing. That's a good exercise anyway, and plus it contributes to lowering your cancer risks in the future.”
She added that events also educate about the importance of mammograms.
"We're inviting the radiologist and the breast surgeon, and then at the end, they can ask any questions or concerns, [and] what they have to know,” she said.
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