Digital mammogram best for younger women: study
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Digital mammography was much better than traditional film mammography at spotting breast cancers in younger women or those with dense breasts, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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The way a girl grows during adolescence and even in the womb may play a key, if murky, role in her risk of breast cancer later in life, a study suggests.
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Mammograms have become a rite of passage for 40-year-old American women, and a compulsory exercise for those over 40. But as rote as those annual screenings might seem, there's nothing routine about a diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Women whose breast cancers are detected by X-ray screening are nearly twice as likely to be cancer-free 10 years after treatment than women whose cancers are discovered by hand, a major new study shows.
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A study released Tuesday effectively dashed hopes that a new test can accurately detect breast cancer in young, high-risk women. Researchers had hoped the test, known as ductal lavage, could detect cancer in milk ducts before it shows up on mammograms.
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Every other year may be enough for women over 50 to have a mammogram, US researchers said on Tuesday. A study of nearly 8,000 women showed that those who let a two-year interval
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The majority of women in the United States are getting their first screening mammogram for breast cancer at age 40, as recommended by health experts, a new study finds.
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American Cancer Society - The US Food and Drug Administration has approved MammaPrint, a new genetic test that can help predict whether a woman's early stage breast  cancer is likely to come back after initial treatment. The test is one of several that could help breast cancer patients and their doctors make decisions about how aggressively to treat the disease.
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The formula that doctors use to calculate a woman's risk of breast cancer underestimates the danger for black women most of the time and especially for those age 50 and older -- the age when they are most likely to benefit from screening tests and protective drugs, according to the first major...
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TUESDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- A prototype of a hand-held scanner that women can use at home for early detection of breast cancer has been developed by researchers at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania.
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MRI scans are far better than  mammograms at spotting a type of precancerous growth before it  becomes invasive breast cancer, a German researcher said on  Sunday.
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Some women claim they don&#39;t have time to get a mammogram. Others believe that with no history of breast cancer in their families, they don&#39;t need one.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is better than mammography at detecting additional disease in breast cancer patients, says an Italian study in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
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Women in their 40s, who tend to have relatively dense breast tissue, are more likely to have a breast tumor missed on a screening mammogram than are older women, new study findings suggest.
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Hormone replacement therapy, breast surgery and a low body weight all make it harder to detect breast cancer, scientists have discovered.
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Women who have breast cancer detected by a mammogram run less risk of having cancer elsewhere in the body over the next 10 years than women whose tumors are discovered by other means, according to a new study.
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The controversial news surrounding hormone replacement therapy (HRT) continues to mount. Now, a new study from Australia shows that women who take HRT may not get the most accurate readings on their mammograms.