breast cancer screening

breast cancer screening

Mandatory Reporting Of Breast Density In Screening Mammograms. Why The Controversy?

Women have every right to know if they have dense breasts and if they’re at...

Can The Mammogram Panel Read A Mammogram?

To issue sound guidelines on breast cancer screening, would the USPSTF benefit by including an...

Why News About Thyroid Cancer Screening Doesn’t Apply To Breast Cancer

Too often, people undergo surgery for small, unlikely-to-be-harmful thyroid tumors. But thyroid cancer is not...

Are 3-D Mammograms a Better Way to Screen for Breast Cancer?

A key question about tomosynthesis is whether it’s worth investing in so many new machines...

JAMA Review on Mammography Points to the Need for Better Ways to Advise Women and Detect Breast Cancer

This new JAMA article reviews the literature. At a glance, it may add to the...

New Article on Mammography Spawns False Hope That Breast Cancer is Not a Dangerous Disease

Few forms of invasive breast cancer warrant no treatment unless the patient is so old...

What Does it Mean if Primary Care Doctors Get the Answers Wrong About Screening Stats?

The new findings have no bearing on whether or not cancer screening is cost-effective or...

Five Ways to Improve the Quality and Success of Breast Cancer Screening by Mammography

Expertise can make a huge difference in clinical outcomes...

What’s Missing in the Recent Mammography Value Study

It’s pre­cisely because there are effec­tive treat­ments for early-stage dis­ease that it’s worth find­ing breast...