The American Cancer Society CEO Karen Knudsen said in a statement that the nonprofit is “disappointed” that the recommendations don’t cover older women. “Millions of women over age 75 are in very good health and are expected to live many more years during which their risk of breast canc...
Radiologists who interpret more mammograms and spend some time reading diagnostic mammograms do better at determining which suspicious breast lesions are cancer, according to a new report published online on Feb. 22 and in print in the April issue of Radiology. The multi-site Breast Cancer ...
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer found in women in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 1 in 8 women will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime. In 2014, an estimated 232,670 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected ...
"I would more encourage women to say if something just doesn't feel right. If a woman is at all concerned, even if it may be nothing ... she should always err on the side of caution," said Dr. Jessica Jones, a breast oncologist at UTHealth Houston and Memorial Hermann in Houston, ...