Sentences with phrase «find on mammograms»
Cancers may be harder to find on mammograms in women with dense breasts.
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«Our finding that breast cancer risk remains elevated up to 10 years after the false - positive result suggests that the radiologist observed suspicious findings on mammograms that are a marker of future cancer risk,» said the study's lead author, Louise M. Henderson, PhD, a UNC Lineberger member and an assistant professor of radiology at the UNC School of Medicine.
Not exact matches
While it is impossible with current techniques to know which cancers we could safely observe and which need to be treated, the review cites findings that roughly 19 percent of women who are diagnosed based on findings from a mammogram are overdiagnosed.
«I personally have found breast cancers on the screening mammograms of many women from ages 40 to 45, whose cancers tend to be of a type that grow rapidly and act aggressively,» she says.
Molecular Breast Imaging (MBI) is a supplemental imaging technology designed to find tumors that would otherwise be obscured by surrounding dense breast tissue on a mammogram.
«Our finding of time - limited harm after false - positive screening mammograms is relevant for clinicians who counsel women on mammographic screening and for screening guideline development groups,» the researchers note.
Discussion: «Our finding of time - limited harm after false - positive screening mammograms is relevant for clinicians who counsel women on mammographic screening and for screening guideline development groups.»
An abnormal finding on a screening mammogram or discovering a lump or other breast changes doesn't necessarily mean you have breast cancer.
While there's still some content about mammograms on the site, «informational pages and factsheets about the disease, including symptoms, treatment, risk factors, and public no - or low - cost cancer screening programs, have been entirely removed and are no longer found elsewhere on the [Office on Women's Health] site,» according to the foundation's report.