Published on: April 20, 2023Jeff Hall Emerging research looking at data from over 414,000 cases of breast cancer deaths suggests that Black women should begin annual mammography screening seven to nine years earlier than White women. Could race and ethnicity-adapted starting ages for annual mammography screening have an impact in addressing disparities with breast cancer outcomes?...
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Comparing mammography and thermography
Breast cancer screening can identify breast cancer before a person notices any physical symptoms. Early detection can enable a person to undergo less invasive treatments with better outcomes. Health authorities and doctors recommend that females have a regular breast screening mammogram. When they would have it depends on their age and individual risk factors. However,...
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Six-month follow-up appropriate for BI-RADS 3 findings on mammography
OAK BROOK, Ill. – Women with mammographically detected breast lesions that are probably benign should have follow-up surveillance imaging at six months due to the small but not insignificant risk that the lesions are malignant, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology. The Breast Imaging and Reporting System (BI-RADS) was established by...
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Tomosynthesis outperforms digital mammography in five-year study
RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA OAK BROOK, Ill. – A new study published in the journal Radiology has found that the advantages of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) over digital mammography (DM), including increased cancer detection and fewer false positive findings, are maintained over multiple years and rounds of screening. In addition, research showed that DBT...
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Why Can’t We Stop Pancreatic Cancer?
There is little a person can do to prevent it, and there is nothing comparable to mammography or colonoscopy to screen for it when it is most amenable to cure. Pancreatic cancer, which will be diagnosed in about 56,770 people in the United States this year, is the only cancer with a rising mortality rate...
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Women benefit from mammography screening beyond age 75
CHICAGO – Women age 75 years and older should continue to get screening mammograms because of the comparatively high incidence of breast cancer found in this age group, according to a new study being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Guidelines on what age to stop...
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3D mammography detected 34 percent more breast cancers in screening
After screening 15 000 women over a period of five years, a major clinical study in Sweden has shown that 3D mammography, or breast tomosynthesis, detects over 30% more cancers compared to traditional mammography – with a majority of the detected tumors proving to be invasive cancers. The extensive screening study was conducted by Lund...