Pittsburgh Steeler running back DeAngelo WIlliams presents a check to Dr. Ronald Cypher on behalf of his foundation to provide mamograms to 53 uninsured ,local women on Tuesday, 12/22/15. Williams makes the same donation in four cities honor of his mother who died from breast cancer (Dave Prelosky photo)

A Pittsburgh Steelers running back is working to make sure that women around the world, including Butler County, get screened for breast cancer.

DeAngelo Williams Tuesday presented a check to Dr. Ronald Cypher and Butler Health System on behalf of his foundation to pay for 53 mammograms in honor of his mother, who died from breast cancer at age 53.

“To all the women living with cancer or affected by cancer, we will find the cure,” Williams said.

Cypher said that his practice, Advanced OB/GYN Associates, on Dec. 16 held an annual day on which it gave free Pap smears and physical examinations to women from the area.

This year they also handed out vouchers for the 53 free mammograms.

“There’s a lot of women in Butler that have no insurance,” Cypher said.

“It’s a potentially life saving event for these women.”

Williams’ mother Sandra Hill died in 2014 after living with breast cancer for 10 years. He has also lost four aunts to the disease.

Williams, originally from Little Rock, Ark., played college football at the University of Memphis and was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in 2006.

He spent his first nine seasons in the NFL with the Panthers before coming to the Steelers earlier this year as a free agent.

He announced earlier this year that his foundation would be presenting checks to a hospital near Pittsburgh as well as ones in North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas.

He chose Butler for the donation because Cypher delivered his and girlfriend Risalyn Burzynski’s third child at Butler Memorial on Sept. 4.