We tapped Dr. Roxanne Pero to break down some things you should understand about mammogram screenings Stephanie Sengwe is a pop culture enthusiast with over 10 years of experience working as a digital ...
New breast cancer screening guidelines from the United States Preventive Services Task Force give the impression that the decades-long debate over when women should start getting mammograms is settled ...
An influential group of medical experts, the US Preventive Services Task Force, recommended last week that most women receive a mammogram starting at age 40. Women should continue to get a mammogram ...
Editor’s Note: The publisher of the study referenced in this story has flagged the report with “expressions of concern.” This story may be updated when the journal posts further information. Women who ...
FILE - Mammographer Alma Garcia, right, demonstrates the process of a mammogram on marketing liaison Dalilah Garcia of the Neighbors Emergency Center in Brownsville, Texas, on Monday, Sep. 18, 2017, ...
The messaging around mammography often doesn’t go beyond this simple three-word refrain: screening saves lives. Medical groups have also moved toward earlier breast cancer screening: The United States ...
In addition to cost and access, there are other factors of daily life that keep many women from getting screened for breast cancer, research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds.
Contrast-enhanced mammography identified three times as many tumors as ultrasound scans. But it is not widely used for screening in the United States. By Roni Caryn Rabin Cancer screening poses a ...
Joy, a 46-year-old in Pittsburgh, recalls being the same age as her teenage boys, when her own mother diligently got cancer screenings. "She had her mammograms every year," Joy says. But, Joy thinks ...