A woman gets a mammogram. All U.S. women getting mammograms will soon receive information about their breast density, which can sometimes make cancer harder to spot. The new requirements, finalized Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration, are aimed at standardizing the informa...
Federal Drug Administration officials have released new standards to help women detect breast cancer earlier. Mammogram providers will now be required to inform women if they have dense breast tissue. Dr. Jessica Shepherd, chief medical officer for Veryw
Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, states that the benefits of the guidelines will include less unnecessary biopsies, less overtreatment, and cost savings.Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)Collier, Roger
New guidelines on mammograms and varying advice on when to start screening and how often to have it have left some women feeling angry and confused. On Tuesday,the American Cancer Society announced a major shift, recommending that most women have an annual mammogram starting at age 45, rather ...
Understanding The New Mammogram GuidelinesREBECCA ROBERTS
Publication: Austin American-Statesman May 02, 2019 Following updated breast cancer screening guidelines from the American College of Physicians and varying recommendations from other medical organizations, Dr. Julie Sprunt of Texas Breast Specialists–Austin shared guidance on wh...
"Perhaps the committee got lost in all the data and all the science, and didn't appreciate exactly what the message would be, because I don't think their intent was necessarily to discourage women 40 to 44 from having a mammogram," Lee said. ...
Even though Black women are 40% more likely than White women to die from the disease, Kamal of the American Cancer Society said that the disparity in deaths is not a result of Black women not following the current mammogram guidelines. ...
"AI is different because it continues to learn and it sees things that are not identified by a human being, it sees adjacency and it sees things on the mammogram that our eyes and our brain can't even perceive," said Schilling.
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