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Connecticut leaders, clinicians and survivors urge mammograms at Yale New Haven awareness event
Summary
At an October event at Yale New Haven Hospital’s Smilow Cancer Hospital, Connecticut officials, clinicians and survivors emphasized that early detection saves lives, highlighted state screening programs and laws expanding diagnostic coverage, and warned that federal funding shifts could threaten care access and research.
Connecticut leaders, medical specialists and survivors gathered at Smilow Cancer Hospital in October to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month and urge residents to get recommended screenings, saying early detection improves outcomes and preserves treatment options.
"Early detection saves lives," the lieutenant governor said, opening the program and laying out national statistics from the American Cancer Society on incidence and mortality. State leaders pointed to Connecticut policies they said support screening access, including a law requiring mammogram providers to notify women with dense breasts and a 2019 state law that expanded breast ultrasound coverage for people with a family history or those 40 and older; speakers also cited a more recent state law extending additional diagnostic coverage…
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