Read the full-text online article and more details about "Mammogram Debate Confuses Women, Doctors Answer on When to Start, Frequency of Testing Elusive" by Janota, Laura - Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 12, 1997By Janota
Any clinician can put in a prescription for a mammogram, Dr. Dodelzon said, and from what she describes, the process is pretty straightforward. Once you get to the appointment, you may fill out a questionnaire that’s aimed at gathering more information that could point to additional risk f...
I was blessed from the beginning with a doctor who nagged me to go and get my mammogram. We found this thing early and were able to attack it and send Herman on his way! As these things go, this was a good one. Not exactly a journey I would wish on anyone, and we’ve had ...
Today, I decide I will talk to Maria a little more. About the people in her life who she can talk to, and the things she is proud of about her life and her kids. We go over the 15-minute limit, and I still haven't clicked the button for the mammogram. Maria tells me about he...
It’s when your cancer comes back after treatment. It can happen a year after you finish treatment forbreast cancer, or 5, 10, even 20 years later. You find another lump, or a shadow appears on your mammogram. Is the cancer back?
Your doctor may want you to get a mammogram. This can give them a better idea of what’s going on inside your breast. If your symptoms don’t clear up soon, your doctor may also want to do abiopsy. They’ll remove a small piece of your breast tissue and look closely at it u...
About 10 days ago, I received a phone call from my best friend telling me that her mammogram showed a lump in her breast and she needed to go back in for a biopsy. A phone call like that puts life into perspective and gets you thinking. Sadly, as women, chances are at some point ...
Happy birthday and now three time grandma, congratulations on both of those things. That’s wonderful. And do you participate in your, you know, guideline recommended screenings, cancer screenings from your doctor? Mammogram and now of course, you know, colonoscopy where they move the sc...
The other option was a yearly mammogram, MRI and appointments with my oncologist and breast surgeon for manual examinations. That’s four times a year I’d have my breasts checked, but I still didn’t feel safe knowing that the cancer was lurking dormant deep within my breast tissue, just...
Early detection and routine mammogram screenings are key to reducing death from breast cancer. That's why Mayo Clinic Health System recommends that women with an average risk of breast cancer start screening mammograms yearly at 40. Average risk of breast cancer means women with no family history...