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Yearly mammograms for breast cancer survivors? Just thinking of the procedure make me cringe. Though I cannot imagine, women must dread going for mammograms.
However, yearly mammograms protect breast cancer survivors: according to a study in the July 20, 2007 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, older women who get yearly mammograms after treatment of […]
That’s right. Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers are not recommending mammograms to men even if they are showing breast symptoms including enlarged or painful breast tissue: a condition called gynecomastia (male breast).
According to Stephanie Hines, M.D., of Mayo’s Multidisciplinary Breast Clinic and Breast Cancer Program in Jacksonville, Florida:
“Mammography is being performed with increasing frequency in […]
Deciding whether to get a regular mammogram?
A new review of studies offers both the good and the bad news to women facing such a decision.
The good news being that screening mammography does reduce breast cancer mortality and the bad news is that women in a screened population are 30 percent more likely to be diagnosed […]
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