October is breast cancer awareness month. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer for women, after skin cancer. Every year, 1 in 8 women (13%) develop breast cancer.¹ This rate is predicted to continue climbing in coming years, in part driven by a rise in breast cancer diagnoses in women under 50.²

In this video, Brown & Brown’s National Clinical Leader, Dr. Louise Short, explains the importance of mammograms in the detection and treatment of breast cancer.

1. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer.html
2. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/researchers-report-dramatic-rise-in-early-onset-cancers/

Dr. Louise Short, MD, MSc

National Clinical Leader