Upstate University Hospital’s mobile mammography van is celebrating five years on the road, and has been a success in fighting the barriers to screening for breast cancer.
Since going on the road, the big blue and pink bus has traveled 47,000 miles, through 12 counties across central and northern New York, conducting more than 4,000 mammograms and detecting cancer in 17 patients.
Mammovan program manager Wendy Hunt said they set up in some more rural communities where transportation is an issue…