NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding a clinical breast exam to screening mammography increases breast cancer detection rates, but it also increases rates of falsely positive results, Canadian ...

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, CommonSpirit St. Elizabeth Hospital is hosting Monday Night Mammo, where patients are able come in during extended hours to receive a mammogram ...

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Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force. Women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year, the group said.

Breast cancer screening saves lives. Cancer can strike anywhere in the breast – the milk glands, the milk ducts or in the connective tissue. In cancer, cells grow out of control. Healthy lifestyle ...

I had breast cancer two times, at 35 and 39. Both times, I found it myself. Both times I had it, I was younger than the age people typically started having mammograms Updated guidelines recommend ...

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C (WTOC) - As October comes to a close one local hospital decided to give out free breast exams in their community Monday. Beaufort Memorial Hospital is trying to end Breast ...

Having an annual screening mammogram is an important step in detecting breast cancer, particularly in its early stages when it tends to be more easily treatable. But many women dread having to do it ...

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ATLANTA (AP) -- After more than a decade of urging by doctors that women older than 40 should receive mammograms yearly, few actually do so, according to a large cancer study. Only 6 percent of women ...

Shirley Bohmann said she "never had an ear open for breast cancer stories." She had no family history. She hadn't felt a lump. She regularly had mammograms. Then last November, after her usual ...