Healthy Conversations: Breast Cancer

By On October 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Andrea Chalfin, Health, Healthy Conversations, Interview, Interviews, KRCC News, Series

October is breast cancer awareness month. Joining us for this month’s Healthy Conversation is Colonel Mike Woll, Chief of Surgery at Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson. We begin by talking about why it’s so important to bring awareness to breast cancer every October.

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Centers for Disease Control: Breast Cancer
National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.

 
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