Breast cancer survivors in Salt Lake City testified to legislators about the importance of thoroughly informing women who have dense breast tissue about the limitations of being diagnosed with a mammogram, reports Deseret News.
Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper, the sponsor of HB258, told the committee that the bill requiring the statement is “so simple, yet it’s a huge benefit that we’re missing right now.”
Christensen lamented the cases of all prior Utah patients who have ever been diagnosed with late-stage breast cancers “that could have been … detected and addressed earlier if they had simply known.”
