This is due, in large part, to the use of relative risks rather than absolute values when communicating information on breast cancer screening benefits. In light of this situation, a unique graphic, functioning as a decision aid, has been developed to enable physicians and patients to jointly ...
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You may be eligible to receive free cancer screening at Minnesota Women's Care through the SAGE Screening Program. This program provides screening and early detection of breast, cervical and colorectal cancers free of charge to people who qualify. The exam and screening is performed in our clinic...
A new study questions thevalue of mammograms for breast cancer screening. It concludes that a woman is more likely to be diagnosed with a small tumor that is not destined to grow than she is to have a true problem spotted early. The work could further shift the balance of whether screening...
Newer, three-dimensional mammograms may be better at picking up invasive tumors and avoiding false alarms thantraditional breast cancer screeningmethods, a study of 13 U.S. hospitals suggests. Researchers found that3D mammography, used along with standard digital mammograms, bumped up breast cancer de...
Screening with mammography, as you may know, has long been hailed as a breakthrough in breast cancer detection. However, the diagnostic procedure has remained controversial for quite some time. Some studies endorse the benefits of mammography, some do not. ...
The nudge toward earlier screening is meant to address two vexing issues: the increasing incidence of breast cancer among women in their 40s — it's risen 2% annually since 2015 — and the higherbreast cancer death rate among Black womencompared to whi...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), based in Rockdale, Maryland, has released a draft of new guidelines for breast cancer screenings, recommending that women begin getting mammograms every other year starting at the age of 40. The new guidelines apply to women who are deemed at...
There is a lack of direct evidence on the effectiveness of double reading of breast screening mammograms within the context of national screening programmes even though about half of the countries that use mammography screening have implemented double reading. A systematic review was conducted to compar...
In the new study, Kalager and colleagues analyzed cases of invasive breast cancer that occurred in Norway between 1996 and 2005, a time period over which the country began a breast cancer screening program for women ages 50 to 69. Different regions of the country began the screening program ...