Receiving a mammogram every two years is just as advantageous for older women as getting a mammogram every year. However, screening for breast cancer every two years results in significantly fewer false positives, researchers of a new study found. The research, conducted by a team at the...
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Can Twitter make cancer better? Xeni Jardin, the founding editor and co-editor of Boing Boing, decided that it probably could, and live-tweeted her first mammogram and breast cancer diagnosis yesterday. She tweeted everything from her decision to undergo her first screening to photos of herself...
Women with Medicaid were slightly less likely than women with Medicare coverage to secure a timely appointment for a diagnostic mammogram, though the delay "is unlikely to be a substantial barrier to mammography," according to a study published in the journal Cancer, Reuters reports. In contrast...