#mammograms

Proposed rule would require breast density reporting and enhance the FDA’s ability to enforce compliance.

Digital breast tomosynthesis allowed many women to avoid diagnostic biopsies without compromising cancer detection.

“People who substitute thermography for mammography may miss the chance to detect breast cancer in its earliest and most treatable stages.�...

Some women should start screening earlier because they are at higher risk for developing breast cancer or having more aggressive disease.

Being told my surgical appointments were at an end was my first kind of untangling from my frequent follow-ups at Sloan.

Women who chose to participate in an organized breast cancer screening program had significantly lower mortality risk than women who didn’t.

This age group accounted for 16 percent of all patients diagnosed with screening-detected cancers in a recent study.

Screening rates for breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate cancer are still below public health targets.

Cancer does not discriminate — and just because you do not have it in your family, well, that just means it might start with YOU.

Many low-risk patients receive high-cost procedures that are not recommended.

Black women and others at elevated risk should be evaluated by age 30.

African-American women, in particular, are less likely to receive the recommended amount of screening after surgery.

But as many as 40 percent of women who qualify for mammograms aren’t being screened.

National Mammography Day is observed the 3rd Friday of October since 1993.