October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and you may see more people with shaved heads at one local hospital.

Jesus Eliazar Villarreal is a surgeon general at Mission Regional Medical Center. He's been helping save lives at the hospital for a decade.

This year, he wanted to take a bold step to help those battling breast cancer.

"One aspect of it is certainly the surgical medical aspect of it, but then there's the other aspect of it, the spiritual, the moral support," Villarreal said.

It started with a simple idea and soon became a team effort.

Nine team members at Mission Regional joined the cause, one shaved head at a time.

"Dr. Riariel is doing it. I go, 'well, if he does, I can do it, too' you know, it doesn't hurt. Patients go through a lot more than us," Certified Surgical First

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