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A study that compared the benefits and harms of the frequency of screening mammography to age, breast density and postmenopausal use of hormone therapy (HT) suggests that woman ages 50 to 74 years who undergo biennial screenings have a similar risk of advanced-stage disease and a lower cumulative risk of false-positive results than those who get mammograms annually, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-outcomes-screening-mammography-age-breast.html Cancer Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:00:02 EST news282828775 Among older women, getting a mammogram every two years was just as beneficial as getting a mammogram annually, and led to significantly fewer false positive results, according to a study led by UC San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-mammogram-years-benefit-yearly-older.html Cancer Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:30:39 EST news279282630 Ultrasound screening could be a more affordable and convenient way to detect early breast cancers in women, especially for those in countries where there is little access to mammograms, according to University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine research presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago. These results are a component of a multinational study that looked at ultrasound as an adjunct to screening mammography. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-ultrasound-accessible-breast-cancer-screening.html Cancer Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:33:34 EST news273223991 Researchers assessing the impact of revised guidelines for screening mammography issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) found evidence that the new recommendations may lead to missed cancers and a decline in screening, according to two studies presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-effects-mammography-guideline.html Cancer Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:07 EST news273174618 The addition of three-dimensional breast imaging—a technology called tomosynthesis—to standard digital mammography significantly increases radiologists' diagnostic accuracy while reducing false positive recall rates, according to the results of a multi-center study published in Radiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-breast-screening-technology-diagnostic-accuracy.html Other Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:07 EST news272563006 More than half the women aged 40-49 diagnosed with breast cancer on screening mammography report no family history, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-family-history-good-women-.html Cancer Thu, 03 May 2012 02:46:57 EST news255232000 Choosing when to start regular breast cancer screening is a complicated decision for individual women and their providers. For most women, increasing age is the biggest risk factor for breast cancer, which is much more common at age 60 than at 40. But two new articles on other risk factors may inform guidelines and clinical practice about screening mammography from age 40 to 49. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-factors-breast-cancer-screening.html Cancer Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:30:01 EST news255023036 Researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have published new findings that mammography remains beneficial for women in their 40s. According to a study published in the May issue of American Journal of Roentgenology, women between ages 40 and 49 who underwent routine screening mammography were diagnosed at earlier stages with smaller tumors than symptomatic women needing diagnostic workup. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-mammography-beneficial-younger-women.html Cancer Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:57:30 EST news254652949 False-positive mammograms could be an indicator of underlying pathology that could result in breast cancer, according to a study published April 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-breast-cancer-false-positive-mammography-results.html Cancer Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:02 EST news252860118 As soon as women quit hormone therapy, their rates of new breast cancer decline, supporting the hypothesis that stopping hormones can lead to tumor regression, according to a report e-published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-hormones-breast-cancer-regress.html Cancer Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:43:17 EST news249666192 A recent study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has found that female cancer survivors receiving screening mammography have "worse health behaviors" than women receiving mammography screening and who had never had cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-female-cancer-survivors-worse-health.html Cancer Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:10:23 EST news248537415 As a woman ages, her chances of being diagnosed with a lower-risk breast tumor increase, according to a novel study led by UCSF which found that for women over 50, a substantial number of cancers detected by mammograms have good prognoses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-breast-cancers-lower-risk-widespread-mammograms.html Cancer Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:34:16 EST news243520432 Women in their 40s with no family history of breast cancer are just as likely to develop invasive breast cancer as are women with a family history of the disease, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). These findings indicate that women in this age group would benefit from annual screening mammography. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-mammography-screening.html Cancer Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:47:19 EST news241753625 A model used to estimate breast cancer survival rates found that the probability that a woman with screen-detected breast cancer will avoid a breast cancer death because of screening mammography may be lower than previously thought, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-probability-proportion-women-survive-breast.html Cancer Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:26:35 EST news238692387 Education, referrals, support and other interventions by community health workers improve rates of screening mammography in the United States – especially in medical and urban settings and among women whose race and ethnicity is similar to that of the community health workers serving them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-health-worker-interventions-mammography-screening.html Cancer Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:04:56 EST news228049447