{"id":460571,"date":"2026-10-08T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460571\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:58:07","slug":"lubbock-oncologist-urging-women-get-early-screening-for-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460571\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock oncologist urging women get early screening for breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Dr. Karla Daniele is a breast surgical oncologist here in Lubbock, helping patients at UMC and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr. Daniele says while cases are continuing to climb, there\u2019s a certain age demographic that\u2019s seeing the effects more frequently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSince about 2012, we\u2019ve seen a steady increase in incidents of about 1%,\u201d Daniele said. \u201cIn young patients, that increased risk or incidents has been about 1.4%\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Young breast cancer patients refers to anyone under the age of 50. The American Cancer Society <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/types\/breast-cancer\/key-statistics.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/types\/breast-cancer\/key-statistics.html\">reports<\/a> 1 in 10 women who fall into this category are being diagnosed every year, leading to the number one cause of cancer death for women ages 25 to 49.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey\u2019re abnormal cells that grown in someone\u2019s breast tissue,\u201d Daniele said. \u201cThe natural progression of that cancer can be just locally destructive, grown and replacing the normal breast tissue, or starting to spread to other body parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That\u2019s why Dr. Daniele is encouraging women to either get early screenings or go over risk assessments with their personal health care provider, especially if breast cancer runs in the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe earlier we diagnose the breast cancer, the easier it\u2019s going to be for us to treat it,\u201d Daniele said. \u201cWe start from stage 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Stages 0-3 are treatable and curable. Stage 4, that\u2019s where we find it somewhere else in the body. It\u2019s treatable, unfortunately, it\u2019s not curable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr. Daniele says if someone is diagnosed with breast cancer, the journey may not look the same for everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSome people may start with surgery first and then other care afterwards,\u201d Daniele said. \u201cSome people might start with chemotherapy or systemic therapy first, then surgery, then radiation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Catching problems early can make treatment easier.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Dr. Karla Daniele is a breast surgical oncologist here in Lubbock, helping patients at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-460571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}