What does it mean to have Stage 1 breast cancer? 
 
 In Stage 1 breast cancer, cancer is evident, but it is contained to only the area where the first abnormal cells began to develop. The breast cancer has been detected in the early stages and can be very effectively treated. 
 
 
 
 Stage 1 can be divided into Stage 1A and Stage 1B. The difference is determined by the size of the tumor and the lymph nodes with evidence of cancer. 
 
 Stage 1A breast cancer means the following description applies: 
 
 The tumor is smaller than the approximate size of a peanut (2 centimeters or smaller) AND has not spread to the lymph nodes. 
 
 Stage 1B breast cancer means one of the following descriptions applies: 
 
 Lymph nodes have cancer evidence with small clusters of cells between the approximate size of a pinprick to the approximate width of a grain of rice (.2mm to 2.0 mm). 
 
 AND EITHER 
 
 No actual tumor is found in the breast. 
 
 OR 
 
 The tumor is smaller than the approximate size of a peanut (2 centimeters or smaller). 
 
 Similar to stage 0, breast cancer at this stage is very treatable and survivable. When breast cancer is detected early, and is in the localized stage, the 5-year relative survival rate is 100%. 

 The devotion to public service and promoting new technology in the city may have helped save Stillwater Mayor Gina Noble’s life. 
 
 The Stillwater mayor was taking part in a public service announcement with the Stillwater Medical Center to promote a new 3-D mammogram program. 
 
 Twenty-four hours later she got the news -- cancer. 
 
 “This is a daunting diagnosis,” Noble said before a group of reporters during a news conference at City Hall Wednesday. 
 
 “I’m going to be okay because of early detection,” she said. 
 
 Noble is diagnosed with stage zero breast cancer and has no family history. 
 
 She has had other mammograms done before, which showed nothing. She said her prognosis is good and she looks forward to beating cancer. 
 
 “Someday I won’t be here, but it won’t be because of breast cancer,” Noble said. “I’m here. I will be back very soon.” 
 
 Noble, who has been an elected official since 2013, became mayor in 2015. 
 
 She is a professor in the School of Media & Strategic Communications at Oklahoma State University. 
 
 Noble plans on beginning her treatment in about 10 days, taking time off during treatment, but is expecting to continue her full-time jobs. 
 
 Noble is also a board member with Stillwater Medical Center, which is one reason she participated in the video PSA. 
 
 “There’s a reason for everything,” Noble said. “I was meant to do that mammography, and thank goodness, because it did catch it early. “ 
 
 Stillwater is one of only three cities in Oklahoma to offer the 3-D technology. Oklahoma City and Tulsa hospitals also have the programs available. 

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 The filming of a public service announcement about early cancer detection quickly turned scary. 
 
 Stillwater, Okla. Mayor Gina Noble was diagnosed with breast cancer while shooting a PSA to promote new 3D mammography technology at a local hospital. Noble received the news within 24 hours of her mammogram. 
 
 "It came as a shock, but I'm dealing with it just like so many others do each day," Noble said in a statement Tuesday. "I am grateful it was caught early. I hope my experience serves as a reminder for women to get their yearly mammograms." 
 
 Noble added she is optimistic about her prognosis for the Stage 0 cancer and will begin treatment sometime within the next week or so. She will take time off but hopes to be back by August 15, she said at a Wednesday news conference. 
 
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 Stillwater, Okla. Mayor Gina Noble underwent a mammogram with brand new technology as part of a public service announcement and found out she had breast cancer. (abc13) 
 
 The hospital where Noble received the mammogram, Stillwater Medical Center, is one of just three facilities in Oklahoma with the new 3D technology and Noble sits on the hospital's board. 
 
 During a board meeting Noble was asked to be the focus of the PSA, which was meant to encourage women to schedule their own mammograms to ensure early detection for breast cancer. 
 
 Instead, the new equipment Noble herself had breast cancer at its earliest possible stage. 
 
 Stillwater Medical Center is one of three facilities in Oklahoma with the new equipment. The others are located in Tulsa, Okla. and Oklahoma City. (abc13) 
 
 The technology gives doctors more detailed images of the examined areas — in increments as small as one millimeter — and help reduce false positives, hospital spokeswoman Dava Judd said. 
 
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 "With 3D, we're able to — with no more radiation dose, no more length of time — build a compression," Judd said. "We're getting 40-50 images of that breast versus one image on 2D." 
 
 "I don't know that we know, but I would assume, because of that 3D mammography we were able to see so much more and that allowed us (to catch it), and that's when you want to catch it," hospital CEO Denise Webber added. 
 
 Stage 0 means the cancer is isolated in a small area and has not spread to other tissue or lymph nodes. Available treatment can include surgery or radiation therapy, according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. 

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– A news conference in Stillwater, Okla., on Wednesday was meant to announce new 3D mammography equipment at a local medical facility. Mayor Gina Noble had another surprise announcement to offer, the Tulsa World reports. As part of a PSA spot for the new machinery, Noble agreed to go on camera getting a mammogram herself, and within 24 hours of doing so she received what she said was a "daunting diagnosis," per the Stillwater News Press: She had breast cancer. "I was meant to do that mammography, and thank goodness we did, because we did catch it early," Noble says, explaining that she's in stage zero of the disease, meaning it's localized and hasn't spread. KOCO notes she has no family history of the illness and has undergone previous mammograms. The 3D procedure, which the CEO of Stillwater Medical Center says took about seven minutes, allows doctors to view breast tissue in 1mm increments—so where they may get just one image from a 2D scan, a 3D scan can produce as many as 50 images from all different angles with just a five-second breast compression. Only two other Oklahoma cities (Tulsa and Oklahoma City) have this technology. Noble, one of the first patients to take advantage of it, says she'll begin treatment by mid-August. The National Breast Cancer Foundation notes treatment could include surgery or radiation, per the New York Daily News. "Please make the call and schedule a 3-D mammography," Noble urged at the news conference. "It saved my life." (Pigeons as mammogram readers?)