Dr. Toma Omofoye says she focuses on being the “best early detector” of breast cancer she can be.

As a breast imaging radiologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, she interprets patients’ mammograms, ultrasounds and MRI scans to try to find the disease as early as possible. She also performs image-guided biopsies.

“Early detection of breast cancer is truly a gift that we can give to women, and it increases that survival,” Omofoye tells TODAY.com.

“I never want to be in a situation where I have to give that woman the bad news, but when we do, I'm grateful when I can say, ‘But thankfully, this has been caught very, very early.’”

Breast cancer is on the doctor’s mind for herself as well. She’s 41, an age when women at average risk can start getting a regul

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