The sensitivity indicates detection in humans up to three years earlier than a mammogram can.
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The computer programs are supposed to be like having a second opinion on each mammogram.
Her mammogram was in January, her biopsy in February and surgery (lumpectomy) in March.
The trouble is, there has never been an automated way to measure breast density in a mammogram.
We advise those aged 50-70 to accept their screening invites or request a mammogram if over 70.
We want a mammogram that is up to date and want a talk with a genetics counselor.
If readers do not know already, dense breast tissue appears white on a mammogram as does breast cancer.
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My Mom had received a bad mammogram, and my sixteen-year-old mind immediately saw it as a death sentence.
It delivers twice as much radiation as a conventional mammogram, but some radiologists say it gives a clearer image.
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Navratilova, 53, said she skipped her mammogram for several years and urged women to get the test done regularly.
"We always check a patient's hormone status when reading a mammogram, " said Dr. Laurel Lemasters of Atlanta Radiology Consultants.
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For some women, it will be consistent with their values to choose to have a mammogram between 40 and 50.
In fact, it has been reported that over 60% of women complain of severe pain during the mammogram procedure itself.
One in four women will, over the course of her lifetime, get at least one false alarm from a mammogram.
Navratilova said she has a noninvasive form of the cancer, called ductal carcinoma in situ, that was detected during a mammogram.
We have mammogram standards in this country because of the Hutchison-Mikulski amendment.
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According to our new report, one in five women age 50 and above haven't gotten a mammogram in the past two years.
Because of the compression that takes place during a mammogram, some women continue to be sore for a few days or longer.
Next time you're scheduled for a mammogram, you may want to talk to your doctor about the latest pain control options available.
He admits not informing patients' GPs about their treatment and failing to perform a pre-operative x-ray and post-operative mammogram on one woman.
The new preventive care yearly physical for Medicare patients will include mammogram, preventive care and incentives for doctors to have an advanced directive discussion.
If every woman between 40 and 59 in the U.S. had a mammogram, a few million would be fretting unnecessarily over a wrong result.
The preventive services task force drew criticism last year for recommending that women delay annual mammogram services until age 50, instead of age 40.
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It is based on what scientists learned from a large mammogram screening trial back in the 1970s that involved more than a quarter-million women.
As you go through this ordeal, be thankful that you went for your mammogram and caught the cancer early enough to be effectively treated.
However, a government report released last year showed that only 64% of women invited to mammogram appointments in London attended, compared to the national average of 75%.
Dr. Joanne Elmore of the University of Washington says that for every 1, 000 marks doctors evaluate on a mammogram, only one may mark a cancer.
But the real key to this controversy is the mammogram itself.
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Both note that a high-quality mammogram includes review of previous studies.
From 2000 to 2003, after a few major reports questioned the value of recommending screening mammography to all women over age 40, mammogram rates did decline.
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