New Breast Screening Guidelines Leave 80% Of Women Uneasy

Over four-fifths of women feel uneasy about being told that routine breast cancer screening for the under 50s is not obligatory. Guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in 2009 upped the minimum age from which women should routinely be screened for breast cancer from 40 to 50 years, and also said that screening should occur every two years up to the age of 74…

More Women In Luxembourg To Benefit From Mammography With Lowest Possible Dose

Luxembourg has invested in two additional digital Sectra MicroDose Mammography systems for their breast screening program. With this investment even more women in Luxembourg will benefit from mammography examinations with the lowest radiation dose on the market. Three hospitals in Luxembourg made their first investments in Sectra’s unique, photon counting mammography systems in 2009…

Population-Based Breast-Cancer Screening Not Best Use Of Limited Health-Care Resources In Low And Middle-Income Countries

There is increasing pressure from national and international advocacy groups on low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) to implement population-based mammography screening…

Blogs Comment On Human Trafficking, Breast Cancer Screening, Other Topics

The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “Bishops vs. Nuns: Who Spoke for the Catholic Church in 2010?” Eugene McMullan, RH Reality Check: McMullan writes that Cardinal Francis George, outgoing president of the U.S…

Annually Breast Cancer Screening Younger Women Lowers Mastectomy Risk

If women are screened for breast cancer every year, starting at the age of 40, their risk of mastectomy following breast cancer is considerably lower, researchers from The London Breast Institute, London, England, explained at the Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America – RSNA 2010…

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