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Although it’s a long word (it’s pronounced toh-moh-SIN-thuh-sis), it’s a simple idea: Tomosynthesis is a kind of three-dimensional (3D) mammogram. It uses low-dose X-rays and a special ...

Share your story idea with Elyse. A new federal ruling from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now requires mammography facilities to notify patients about their breast density.

Though the test may cause slight discomfort, it only lasts about 20 minutes. A mammogram is an X-ray of your breast. It’s a screening tool used to detect breast cancer. Together with regular ...

The first stage in breast screening involves an X ray (mammogram) of the breast. Usually 2 images of each breast are obtained and a radiologist examines the images. Mammography can detect very small ...

A ruling from the Food and Drug Administration that requires mammogram facilities to inform patients about breast density – a measurement of tissue in a woman’s breasts – went into effect ...

Why is mammography performed on dedicated breast imaging equipment? Early breast cancer is difficult to detect because it appears similar to normal breast tissue. The difference between cancer and ...

In the middle of the night, Angie McCoy flipped onto her stomach in bed and felt something hard in her right breast. It was July 2020, and she and her husband, Tim, were staying at a rental house ...

The most common use for breast MRI is high risk screening, which is indicated annually to supplement a mammogram for women who have a 20 ... biopsied by determining if cancer is in more than one ...

A new study found women were less likely to return for another mammogram if they received a false-positive result in the past. About 10% of screening mammograms require some kind of follow-up ...

A 44-year-old woman was referred to our breast-imaging department because of the finding of suspicious breast microcalcifications (BI-RADS 4), after voluntary mammography screening ... located in the ...

A ruling from the Food and Drug Administration that requires mammogram facilities to inform patients about breast density – a measurement of tissue in a woman’s breasts – went into effect Tuesday.