Platte Valley Hospital’s Spectrum Medical Imaging launched a new service this month to give doctors a clearer view through dense breast tissue as they screen patients for cancer.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Screening mammography is the best way to detect breast cancer early, according to a Pine Belt diagnostic radiologist. “It’s easily accessible, and it helps detect some of ...

Having dense breasts can put women at higher risk of breast cancer and make it more difficult to spot cancer on a mammogram, but many don’t realize it’s a significant risk. Starting this week, all ...

In this week’s Health Beat, brought to you by TidalHealth, WMDT spoke with Dr. Sharnell Smith, a fellowship trained breast ...

At the time of the mammogram, a patient should specifically enquire about their breast density category - Getty When Sarah Fleetwood found a lump in her right breast on the day of the King’s ...

When JoAnn Pushkin was 45 years old, she felt a lump in her right breast—which struck her as odd, considering it had only been eight weeks since her annual mammogram, which she’d been getting ...

HealthDay News — Ultrasound and mammography appear equally likely to detect breast cancer, according to research published online Dec. 28 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The new study ...

If women need any more encouragement to schedule an annual screening mammogram starting at age 40, experts offer some sobering statistics about the aggressive growth of breast cancer for patients in ...

Plenty of women have felt their heart stop when they come across a lump during a self-breast exam. For women in their 20s and 30s, lumps, bumps, aches and pains in the breasts may be due to ...

“After that experience, I said, if we’re going to be telling women they have dense breasts, there needs to be a place for women to figure out if they meet criteria for an MRI or if they want to get an ...