About half of women over 40 have dense breasts. The denser the breast tissue, the more difficult it is to spot cancer on a standard mammogram. Having dense breast tissue can make it harder to detect ...
In 2023, the FDA updated its mammography regulations, with a key amendment that required facilities to provide information to patients regarding the density of their breasts. This amendment featured ...
A pioneering study has found that an individualized approach to breast cancer screening that assesses patients' risk, rather ...
Breast cancer screening could be improved by adding “MBI” tests to 3D mammogram screenings for women with dense breast tissue—which nearly half of all U.S. women have. Called 'molecular breast imaging ...
Women with dense breasts could benefit from an advanced cancer screening procedure called molecular breast imaging, a new study says. The procedure more than doubled the detection of advanced breast ...
Adjunct Associate Professor, The Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between the University of Sydney and Cancer Council NSW, and Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, ...
When it comes to early detection, mammograms remain the only screening test proven to reduce deaths from breast cancer in average-risk women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...
When Dr. Shoshana Hallowell, a breast surgeon with McLaren Health System in Lapeer, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020, she knew it put all of her first-degree relatives at higher risk for ...
More than half of American women may be confused about when to start having regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer. This is the finding of a survey by researchers at the University of ...