FORT WAYNE – Decades of growing awareness of breast cancer, increasing screenings and improving detection have paid dividends as tumors are more often being caught earlier, leading to better outcomes and more lives being saved.
As Breast Cancer Awareness Month opens this October, the fight isn’t over and new challenges are rising, but detection, treatment and survival rates are improving every year, said Dr. Andrew Brown, breast surgical oncologist at the Parkview Packnett Family Cancer Institute.
“Screening has improved significantly. More women are getting their mammograms yearly as we recommend,” Brown said. “Early screening is playing a part in why we may be seeing more cases of breast cancer, but we’re seeing them at an earlier stage.”…