WEDNESDAY, March 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Your annual screening mammogram may do more than spot breast cancer early — it may give you a heads up on your heart disease risk, too. Digital breast X-rays can also detect a build-up of calcium in the arteries of your breasts, an […]
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Mammograms over-diagnose 1 in 7 breast cancers in the US
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. About one in seven breast cancers detected by mammogram screening in the United States are over-diagnosed, according to a new study. Over-diagnosis, the detection of cancer with mammography that would not become clinically evident […]
Fewer Breast Cancers May Be ‘Overdiagnosed’ by Mammograms Than Thought – Consumer Health News
TUESDAY, March 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Screening mammograms can lead to overdiagnosis of breast cancer, but a new study finds it happens less often than experts have thought. Researchers estimated that about 15% of breast cancers caught through routine mammography screening are overdiagnoses — meaning the tumors would never […]