Breast cancer is everywhere. It’s the most common cancer in women around the world, and it’s not going away—2.3 million new ...

Not necessarily. Microcalcifications can be due to cancer, but they can also appear in some benign - that is - non cancerous - conditions, and many women with microcalcifications do not have breast ...

SPANISH FORK — Megan Johnson has spent her career caring for others. As president and CEO of Intermountain Spanish Fork Hospital, she's used to guiding teams and comforting patients — not becoming one ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — It all started when Lyndsey Williams went for her 40-year-old routine mammogram, in which she had no symptoms of breast cancer. On her second diagnostic mammogram, the team ...

Cancer screening poses a quandary for women with dense breast tissue. They’re at elevated risk for breast cancer, but mammograms often miss tumors buried in dense breasts — and insurers often resist ...

Supplementary contrast imaging detected more breast cancers than automated whole-breast ultrasound in women with dense breasts. The invasive tumor size found by abbreviated MRI and contrast-enhanced ...

Extra scans can triple detection of breast cancer among women with dense breasts The additional mammography and MRI scans use contrast dye to better highlight tumors Dense breasts are tougher to ...

In women with dense breasts (breasts with relatively low levels of fatty tissue) and a negative mammogram, supplemental imaging techniques detect early-stage cancers, with imaging techniques three ...

Because medical guidelines are based on satisficing, they are not always in the best interest of all patients. Satisficing is a mix of two words, the word satisfy, and the word suffice. The term ...

Eight women sat in a circle, eating pizza and salad and drinking wine on a recent evening. It had a bit of a book-club vibe, but this was a very different type of gathering. Shelly Budde, a nurse with ...