Annual screening is key to fighting breast cancer

Annual screening is key to fighting breast cancer

Content provided by UCHealth One in eight American women will develop breast cancer – a sobering statistic that makes an annual mammogram critically important to detect cancer at its earliest stage. “The earlier we find it, the best chance we have to cure it, with the easiest treatment,” said Dr. Malaika Thompson, a breast radiologist at UCHealth Gloria Gossard Breast Care Center in Steamboat Springs. “That is why getting an annual mammogram is …