The main problem with breast implants, he says, is that they make mammography more difficult.
Mammography can find some breast cancers when they are small and most treatable by surgery.
The bottom line, according to Lee, is that mammography is a public health measure that works.
However, radiologists who do the actual mammography screenings have long known hormone use can change breast tissue.
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So mammography is highly ineffective for 40% of women (those with dense breast tissue) who undergo mammographic screening.
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Mammography, which is an X-ray of the breast tissue, is a technology that has been available since the 1950s.
National Cancer Institute concluded that digital mammography would vastly improve breast cancer detection.
One of the study authors, Dr. Howard Zellen, a noted cancer clinical trial researcher, said he still recommends mammography screening.
Hall says that's partly because years ago, when computer-aided mammography was new, Medicare and private insurers started paying extra for it.
The new study indicates that computer-aided mammography is doing more harm than good, by exposing women to unnecessary tests and anxiety.
It is also important to note that 35 percent to 40 percent of women who should be getting mammography are not.
Although breast self-awareness is critically important, it does not negate the impact that mammography has on reducing mortality from breast cancer.
Elmore says women should ask whether their hospital or mammography center uses computer-aided detection, as about 40 percent of U.S. centers do.
They collected data from 43 mammography centers in three states to see if those that had adopted the computer technology did better.
Back in the early 1990s a panel at the National Cancer Institute concluded that digital mammography would vastly improve breast cancer detection.
Anderson pathologist Mary Elizabeth Edgerton are creating a simulation that predicts the location of cancer deposits that cannot be seen on mammography.
Both note that women should be informed of the limitations of mammography.
Uninsured adults are also much less likely to receive vaccinations, cancer screening services such as mammography and colonoscopy, and other effective preventive services.
Mammography has helped reduce breast cancer mortality in the United States by nearly one-third since 1990, according to the American College of Radiology.
Researchers say increased breast density impairs the accuracy of screening mammography and is a strong, if not the strongest, risk factor for missing cancer.
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It said digital mammography had also been started, and praised a "comprehensive work plan for nursing, " which had been put together by the team.
Bottom line: The study did not say mammography is now worthless.
As with any test, there are limitations and downsides to mammography.
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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One thing is clear: Centers that use computer-aided mammography bring many more women back for more studies, with a 31 percent increase in the patient recall rate.
There have been a number of articles in the press about mammography, and this has caused me to get quite a few questions about breast cancer screening.
Brawley said people believe mammography is better than it is.
Over time, a number of clinical studies showed that asymptomatic women given regular mammography have a lower breast cancer death rate compared with women who do not get mammography.
Last month, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) issued new breast cancer screening guidelines, recommending that mammography screening be offered annually to women beginning at age 40.
It is unclear whether the task force's recommendations turned women in their 40s away from mammography, although some facilities reported a decrease in screening in the wake of the controversy.
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