October- Breast Cancer Awareness month- prompts a look at treatment advances. A Casper Oncologist comments on new practices improving the outcomes for some women with the disease.
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Difficulty of access and confusion about mammogram recommendations both feed into Wyoming's ranking as second lowest in the nation when it comes to the numbers of women taking advantage of screenings for breast cancer.
"The most recent year we have for rankings of overall screening rates was 2010 and our overall screening rate for women, 40 and older, was 67...