Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, based in Park Ridge, Ill., became the first hospital in the Midwest to offer its patients 3D mammography, according to a Park Ridge Trib Local report. The ...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and an annual reminder that getting a regular mammogram is currently the most effective tool available for detecting breast cancer early. Cancer treatment is ...

Three-dimensional imaging outperformed older digital mammography at reducing anxiety-producing callbacks for more breast cancer testing, a new study shows. The research, published this month in the ...

The newer, 3D form of breast screening, known as digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), is more effective at detecting breast cancer than traditional 2D digital mammography (DM). That's the conclusion of ...

SALEM – Two walk-in screening mammogram events will be held in October at ARC Medical Imaging’s new Canfield and Columbiana locations. Expanded walk-in hours for mammograms will be offered at ARC’s ...

Technological advances in cancer screenings help lower the number of cancer deaths. That’s according to the latest report from the American Cancer Society, which also attributes better treatments to a ...

CBS NEWS - Newer, three-dimensional mammograms may be better at picking up invasive tumors and avoiding false alarms than traditional breast cancer screening methods, a study of 13 U.S. hospitals ...

WASHINGTON -- Women are now advised to get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40 and until age 74, according to new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF, a ...

Have you recently received a letter from your doctor’s office about your breast density? You might be wondering what it’s all about. Thanks to a new requirement from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

BLAIR COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — UPMC Altoona hosted the first of three walk-in mammogram screening events at the Station Medical Center to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Mammograms help with early ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm about to turn 40, and I'm nervous about getting my first mammogram. I hear they can be uncomfortable or even painful. Is breast cancer screening really that important? A common ...

Medicare covers at least one mammogram per year for women over 40. You can get your first mammogram between age 35 and 39, then one every year to check for breast cancer. Medicare will pay for more ...