Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
Patient Resources
What Every Woman Needs to Know
One of the keys to the increasing breast cancer survival rate is early detection. It is so important for every woman to follow these screening guidelines:
Confused About the Mammography Guidelines?
In the face of new breast cancer screening guidelines, cancer centers across the country are rejecting the new recommendations -- opting to stay the course with current recommendations and not make any changes in what they advise to patients.
Mammography Saves Lives
Mammography Saves Lives is a coalition of not-for-profit, medical associations representing a broad spectrum of breast cancer care experts. This website includes an annual reminder sign up, survivor stories, research and more.
Who Needs a Mammogram?
If you are a woman age 40 or older and in good health, you should have a mammogram every year, according to the American Cancer Society.
