While mammograms are currently the gold standard in breast cancer screening, swirls of controversy exist: advocates argue for the ability to save lives, (women aged 60 to 69 had a 33 percent lower risk of dying compared to ...
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A modeling study found that very small number of deaths averted from breast cancer may be eclipsed by cost and potential harms of overdiagnosis when annual mammography screening is extended past age 75 years. Biennial screening ...
Nov 23, 2021
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Women are being encouraged to get their annual breast cancer screening and for good reason. Screening can save lives.
Oct 21, 2021
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A mammogram is an X-ray image of your breasts that is used to screen for breast cancer. Mammograms play a key role in early breast cancer detection and help decrease breast cancer deaths.
Oct 18, 2021
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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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(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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While the COVID-19 crisis is challenging, the pandemic is also giving researchers an opportunity to discover new approaches to saving lives. A study published in the JAMA Network Open on Thursday, March 25, 2021, recommends ...
Mar 29, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Don't skip your breast cancer screening mammogram.
Mar 2, 2021
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Reports of some patients developing swollen lymph nodes after a COVID-19 vaccination has raised questions about whether screening mammograms should be rescheduled due to concerns that this finding could be mistaken for a ...
Feb 23, 2021
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