Out-of-pocket costs for screening mammography have been mostly eliminated for women over 40 years old, but not for any needed follow-up procedures or testing if a screening mammogram is abnormal. A study by the Neiman Health ...
Mar 27, 2023
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Awareness of breast density appears to increase one's perceived breast cancer risk for a short time after undergoing mammography in Northern Manhattan, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public ...
Feb 2, 2023
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One in five women is likely to forgo additional testing after an abnormal finding on a screening mammogram if there is a deductible, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society ...
Nov 29, 2022
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A two-pronged approach to imaging breast density in mice, developed by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has resulted in better detection of changes in breast tissue, including spotting early ...
Sep 14, 2022
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Black and Asian women are more likely than white women to experience significant delays in getting breast biopsies after a mammogram identifies an abnormality. Moreover, those delays appear to be influenced by screening site-specific ...
Jun 23, 2022
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Women know less about the so-called overdiagnosis of breast cancer compared to other aspects of mammogram screening. Despite this, there are few indications that women drop out of mammogram screening programs after receiving ...
Feb 15, 2022
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The number of women who canceled their mammogram appointments increased in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic before gradually decreasing to pre-pandemic baseline levels of cancelation, according to a Loma Linda University ...
Oct 13, 2021
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Although mammography reduces breast cancer mortality by 15 to 20 percent, the diagnosis in many cases—approximately 15 percent of all breast cancers—occurs after a patient has a negative mammogram and before her next ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Compared with commonly used clinical risk factors, a sophisticated type of artificial intelligence (AI) called deep learning does a better job distinguishing between the mammograms of women who will later develop breast cancer ...
Sep 7, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Substantially fewer women completed screening mammograms at one safety-net hospital during the first year of the pandemic, with Black women experiencing the lowest volumes compared with other racial/ethnic groups, ...
Aug 20, 2021
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