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
Expert challenges new mammogram guidelines; screening should start at age 40, not 50 as U.S. task force recommends, Harvard radiologist says.Goodwin, Jenifer
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 ...
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. ...
"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.
When a primary care doctor orders specialized testing, say for a patient who complains of breast pain, they may not know the best imaging test to choose. It might be an MRI, an ultrasound, a mammogram, or another imaging test. Radiologists generally follow the American College of Radiology'...
Screening for male breast cancer in BRCA mutation carriers as suggested by the NCCN clinical practice guidelines (29) includes breast self-exam training and education, clinical breast exam every 6 to 12 months, and consideration of a baseline mammogram. Risk-Reducing Surgery The actual timing of ...