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What Is a Mammogram?

What a Mammogram Is Used For Mammograms are recommended as a routine screening test to look for evidence of breast cancer in people who don't have any symptoms. A mammogram may also be done as a ...
When people talk about breast cancer, they always warn women to make sure they get mammograms regularly. But what it actually entails, is kept relatively hush-hush, aside from the warnings from people ...
I have been interpreting mammograms for more than 25 years, and I have heard just about every misconception there is about breast screening. Unfortunately, women sometimes delay or even forgo having a ...
You'll no doubt have heard the term mammogram thrown about in conversation at least one point in your life. Whether your mum received a letter to make an appointment when you were younger, your gran ...
An ongoing study spotlights the link between calcium deposits in the breast arteries and life-threatening heart risks.
Breast cancer accounts for 1 in 3 of all new cancers diagnosed in women in the U.S. each year, according to the American Cancer Society. It's estimated that more than 43,00 women in the U.S. will die ...
Mammography screening is safe for anyone who has received a COVID-19 vaccine or booster shot. Yet, people should pay attention to the timing of their COVID-19 vaccine shots and breast cancer ...
Researchers think a calcium called breast arterial calcification might be a clue that a woman's blood vessels are clogged, ...
People across the United States receiving mammograms will soon be given information about their breast density – a trait that can make cancer harder to detect. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
New technologies are helping to reduce the odds of a false-positive mammogram. (Getty Images) While experts are sympathetic to the stress false positives can cause, they're urging women to keep going ...
Upstate University Hospital is providing breast cancer screenings directly to women in Onondaga and Oswego Counties with its ...
When Margie Singleton felt a lump in her left breast in the summer of 2017, she didn’t panic. Her routine mammograms, including one six months earlier, had always come back normal. What the ...