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Time Breast MRI by Progesterone Level (en inglés)
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is sometimes used as a screening test for breast cancer, especially in young, premenopausal women who have higher-than-average risk of breast cancer. MRI accuracy can b...
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Surveillance is Safe for Probable Benign Breast Masses (en inglés)
Breast lumps often are found during breast self-exam, "accidentally" (while bathing, for example), and during a breast exam by a medical professional. Lumps found one of these ways are called palpable ...
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Breast Cancer Screening: New Fuel for an Old War of Words and Data (en inglés)
Questions raised by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concerning the benefits of mammograms for women younger than 50 have sparked intense debate among medical experts. The controversy around mam...
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Mammography Recommendation Draws Strong Responses (en inglés)
There were strong reactions to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations to change current breast cancer screening guidelines. Breastcancer.org reviewed the task force recommendations and...
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Panel Puts Off Mammography until Age 50 (en inglés)
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is a group of experts that makes recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policies to prevent diseases, including the best ways to ...
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Analysis Questions Breast and Prostate Cancer Screening (en inglés)
Most experts believe that regular breast cancer screening for women 40 and older means more breast cancer is diagnosed earlier, when it's more treatable. This means lives are saved. Still, doctors cont...
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ASCO Breast: Most Deaths Fall Outside Screening Programs (en inglés)
Getting an annual mammogram is one of the best ways to diagnose breast cancer early, when it's most treatable. A large study reinforces this fact: researchers found that the risk of dying from breast c...
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ASCO Breast: Preop Lymph Node Ultrasound Prevents Second Surgeries (en inglés)
Sentinel lymph node biopsy often is done before or during breast cancer surgery to help figure out if the cancer has spread to lymph nodes in the nearby underarm (axillary) area. If cancer cells are fo...
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False Positives Higher with Breast Exam than with Mammography (en inglés)
A study found that using both a clinical exam -- a manual exam of the breasts by a medical professional -- and a mammogram is better at detecting breast cancer than a mammogram alone. Still, clinical e...
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MRI May Hinder Early Breast Cancer Staging (en inglés)
After early-stage breast cancer is diagnosed, some doctors order a breast MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to help decide between mastectomy or lumpectomy. The MRI is done to learn more information abo...
