Technology advances to help detect breast cancer
ROBERT PIERCE
• Leader & Times
There was a time when the mortality rate for breast cancer, or any cancer for that matter, made the disease seem like a death sentence.
As the years have progressed, though, so too have technology, education and treatment for breast cancer, and with that in mind, between 1989 and 2022, mortality rates have dropped 44 percent, nearly in half.
Kelly Denton, director of the Diagnostic Imaging department at Liberal’s Southwest Medical Center, said in the early days of breast cancer treatment in the late 1980s and early 1990s, screenings were done mostly through the use of film.
