Avera Medical Minute: Receiving cancer care close to home [Video]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – You’ve likely been told to make sure you schedule your mammogram each year. For one Yankton woman, that annual exam delivered life-changing news. But she’s remaining positive even through setbacks, that’s in tonight’s Avera Medical Minute.

Just over a year ago, Jantina Nelson-Stastny went in for her annual mammogram. What she thought would be a routine exam, led to doctors finding breast cancer.

“I really didn’t know what to think, it was a little bit of a shock, I didn’t know of any history in our family,” said Avera patient, Jantina Nelson-Stastny.

This eventually led her to meeting with breast surgeon, Dr. Michelle Bryan in Sioux Falls.

“In terms of her plan going forward we were able to talk through that,” said breast surgeon, Michelle Bryan, MD, PhD.

“It was all day I met with her and others, they were just really thorough,” …