Sentences with phrase «noncancerous lesions»

For current breast cancer screening methods such as mammography, the challenges are access to screening, compliance, detection of some disease that is indolent and need not be treated, detection of noncancerous lesions that undergo biopsy, and failure to detect some disease that does need to be treated.

Widespread breast screening has led to early detection and a new dilemma: whether to aggressively treat noncancerous lesions that may never become invasive or whether to «watch and wait.»