Healthy Woman event focuses on breast cancer - San Angelo Standard-Times

he Healthy Woman program will kick off a breast cancer prevention program with a free "Best Protection is Early Detection" event at 5:30 p.m. June 28 in the ballroom of Angelo State University's LeGrand Alumni and Visitors Center, 1620 University Ave.

The event will feature Dr. Rakhshanda Rahman, who led the formation of the first nationally accredited breast center of excellence, the Amarillo Breast Center of Excellence. She is an associate professor of surgery for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine.

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