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Are Mammograms as Scary as They Sound? Doctors Weigh In
13 days ago - By PopSugar
Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer in women in the United States, and it's responsible for about 30 percent of all new female cancers each year, according to the American Cancer Society. With that, screening for this disease is important - and the gold standard is via mammogram.
If you've never had a mammogram before, it's understandable to have questions about how the process works and whether mammograms hurt. But you may also have some really basic questions about what this lifesaving procedure involves and what it does, exactly.
At a basic level, a mammogram is a procedure...
Read more ...Few Women Identify Breast Density as a Breast Cancer Risk
13 days ago - By Medscape
Overall, the study indicated that most women did not have a strong understanding of the risk associated with breast density.
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