For example, breast cancer will strike one in eight American women in their lifetime. Early detection using mammography reduces mortality rates by approximately 20 percent. But use of vitamin D might prevent this cancer in the first place.
Quotes about mammography (12 Quotes)
This is the single biggest advance in mammography in 30 years, and women throughout the United States now have access to a powerful new tool in the fight against breast cancer,
The question was not whether you could make mammography work under ideal circumstances, but does it work now, in the real world right now
Just like mammography, we essentially have a preventive health care test that Medicare is mandated to cover.
We only have three or four places I'm aware of in the Triangle area that have digital mammography available right now. I know it's at UNC, Duke and Alamance in Burlington, for example.
By the time a woman feels something, say if it is cancer, it has been there for years. You're not going to get all early cancers with mammography, but it's the best tool we have to date.
That was the major surprise of the study, ... These subsets of women have a pretty dramatic benefit from digital mammography.
He saved lives and was a great doctor to thousands of people but saved more untold lives through his programs in mammography and computer research to help save people through early detection.
We don't have all the answers. We think our work has pointed out that the mammography paradox is real. We are confident we understand what causes it. We have identified a problem -- a mechanism that is testable. We have not found a solution. But identifying the problem is a major step in the right direction.
Young women need to be advised of the risk of accelerated tumor growth and early relapse before giving informed consent for mammography.
Rates of colorectal cancer screening should be as good as or better than mammography rates if the nation really wants to gain the greatest level of benefit from both a prevention and early detection standpoint.
Something of this nature is extremely rare. Our experience is that the mammography facilities in Pennsylvania are doing an exemplary job.