News tagged with 'Mammogram'

Dr. Susan Lark, who reports online on women's health issues, is encouraging women to seek out thermography to measure the heat generated by breast cancers, as a more accurate tool than traditional mammography.

In a sudden turnabout, a major policy setting organization is discouraing regular mammograms for women in their 40s, saying the anxiety from false positives and surgical procedures outweighs the benefits.

Doctors may not be aware that a woman's chances for breast cancer increase if she had chest radiation as a treatment for cancer as a child. As a result, many women are not following up with recommended screening mammograms.

While previous studies have observed how a cancer diagnosis can affect the quality of a marital relationship, this is the first study to examine how the marital relationship affects long-term recovery of breast cancer.

A new pilot study presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium suggests alternating mammography and MRI at six-month intervals can detect breast cancers not detected by mammography alone. Current standards are yearly screenings.

New research presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, suggests dense breast tissue contains more cells known to produce breast cancer than that of non-dense tissue.

New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests, a computer together with one expert has the same effectiveness at detecting breast cancer as two different radiologists.

A new experimental technique called molecular breast imaging (MBI) was three times more effective than traditional mammography at detecting breast cancer tumors in women who have dense breast tissue.

Actress Christina Applegate, 36, opted for a double mastectomy even though she had breast cancer in one breast only. It is an increasingly popular option for women who have an elevated genetic risk, but an improvement in outcome is still uncertain.

According to a new report published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, radiologists, especially those recently graduated from medical school, report false-positive cancer readings up to nearly 16 percent of the time when reading mammogram X-rays. As part of a study on the benefits of mammography, researc

Several recent reports have suggested that mammography may not be as effective as medical experts claim. According to new evidence from four Swedish studies, though, the procedure significantly reduces breast cancer deaths. More than 245,000 women were followed for more than sixteen years in the studies. A woman's r

For years, doctors have considered the mammogram one of the best tools for detecting breast cancer. But a debate is brewing among scientists and health researchers over whether the procedure is as effective as many claim. Two Danish scientists recently concluded that undergoing regular mammograms may not help prevent