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The most important thing to know about breast cancer if you're under 40 - and a word about booze

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published October 20, 2016 at 11:57 AM CDT

Mammograms don't work well if you're under 40.

And drinking alcohol is clearly linked to an increased risk of developing breast cancer.

Dr. Helen (Mitzi) Doane is, among other things, a health professor at UMD and she joined us this morning for a conversation on the newest things we know - and don't know - about the second most common form of cancer.

For more information about breast cancer: Breastcancer.org, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, and the Minnesota Cancer Alliance.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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