mammograms

Planned Parenthood is painting a breast cancer foundation as a bunch of pink powder puffs for yanking grants for poor women to receive mammograms.

Review of 1.6 million mammograms from 685,000 women shows that commonly used computer-assisted detection (CAD) makes mammograms more costly but not better at finding cancers.

A leading women's health association firmly announced Wednesday that 40 is the age when women should start getting annual screenings for breast cancer, nearly two years after a controversial government panel called for women to wait until they are 50 for annual mammograms.

Women in their 40s should have a mammogram every year just like older women, the nation's largest group of ob-gyns now says.

Women with dangerous lumps or other signs of cancer have to wait up to 50 days to get a mammogram at a city hospital, a shocking new report says.

(American Roentgen Ray Society) Two new studies reveal that the United States Preventative Services Task Force's recommendation to no longer screen women ages 40-49 for breast cancer using mammograms has begun to negatively affect the number of yearly mammograms performed in this age group and thus decrease the benefits of early detection.

LONDON (AP) -- Women in their 40s with a moderately high family risk of breast cancer should get yearly mammograms, a new British study suggests....

LONDON (AP) -- Women in their 40s with a moderate family risk of breast cancer should get yearly mammograms, a new study suggests....

Women with an early form of breast cancer are at higher risk for recurrence if their breast tissue appears dense on mammograms, a study shows.

A top Obama administration official on Wednesday appeared to try to distance the federal government from controversial new guidelines recommending fewer women routinely undergo mammograms to screen for breast cancer.