Low Chance of False Positive Mammography
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It can be very daunting for a woman to have to undergo additional tests after a mammogram and then to find out there is nothing wrong.
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MONDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Just 5 percent of Web pages devoted to breast cancer contain inaccurate information. But pages focused on complementary or alternative medicine are 15 times more likely to make misleading claims and contain other false information, a new study says.
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HIALEAH, Fla. -- The Food and Drug Administration is advising women who received mammograms at a Hialeah Clinic to be tested again, since the facility did not meet federal standards.
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NEW YORK  - Screening for cancer quite often produces a false-positive result, and this can lead to costly -- and ultimately unnecessary -- follow-up testing, according to a new report.
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Women with a high genetic risk for breast cancer run a better chance of having it detected with magnetic resonance imaging than with mammography and other methods, researchers said on Tuesday.
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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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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDayNews) -- Women whose breast cancer is detected by physical examination are about three times more likely to receive chemotherapy than women whose breast cancer is detected by mammography, a Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center study finds.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more accurate than mammography, ultrasound or clinical examination in detecting breast cancer in women with a hereditary risk for the disease, a study has found.
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A new long-term study finds that, over 20 years, only one in five women who have mammograms every two years will have to undergo follow up evaluation for a false positive finding.
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An MRI scan can find extra tumors that mammograms missed in women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, researchers reported on Saturday.
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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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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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Analyzing cells from milk ducts doesn't reliably detect breast cancer, researchers reported Tuesday &#151; dashing hopes that the experimental technique could diagnose high-risk women sooner.
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Cancers were harder to detect in the breasts of lower-weight women who were also more likely to develop cancers between screenings, according to a study.
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October marks the 20th year of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Since the program began in 1985, mammography rates have more than doubled for women age 50 and older (from 25 percent in 1987 to 69 percent
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDayNews) -- Women age 50 and above who get screening mammograms every two years instead of annually may not face an increased risk of being diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer, a new study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Having a doctor examine the  breasts for potential signs of cancer may add little to the  benefits of mammography screening, a large study suggests.