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Katie Kaspar, a teacher at New Hyde Park Memorial High School, says she’s lucky that her breast cancer was caught early during a routine mammogram when she was 41. “I was really blindsided.” said Kaspar. “I didn’t have any lump, I didn’t feel anything, it was a cluster of cells that would have progressed.” Kaspar said about the disease she’s been raising awareness about since her diagnosis more than eight years ago. According to a new report from the American Cancer Society, early detection is one the reasons fewer women are now dying from breast cancer. RELATED: Study: More women under 50 are being diagnosed with breast cancer “Overall, it’s a good news, because the mortality rate keeps going down.” said Dr. Paolo Boffetta of the Stony Brook Cancer Center. The report looked at breast cancer deaths and diagnoses from 1989 through 2022. It revealed that while fewer women are dying from the disease, more women under 50, are being diagnosed with breast cancer……