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...DENSE Postmenopausal women, add this to your worries about hormone-replacement therapy. Women on HRT are three times as likely to have "dense breasts" as those who don't use hormones, say researchers. The problem: dense breasts, which are more glandular, look a lot like cancerous tissue on a mammogram, making it more difficult for radiologists to spot real tumors...
Even before the results of her mammogram came back, Delaney-Smith knew the diagnosis would not be good...
...Mammograms have saved the lives of tens of thousands of women over the past 20 years. Though mammograms are not perfect, their ability to detect small tumors gives doctors and their patients the option of treating the cancer while it is in an early, more curable stage. And yet by the time even a small tumor is picked up on a mammogram, odds are it has been growing for five to seven years. What if doctors could find even younger (and therefore presumably easier to treat) breast tumors? That's the question that a group of researchers asked themselves...
BETTER BREAST SCANS Researchers at the University of Chicago and elsewhere are developing computer programs that can point out questionable areas on mammograms that might easily be missed. Other scientists are looking at the possibility that a different type of scan, magnetic resonance imaging, can help spot tumors in areas of the breast that are difficult for a mammogram to penetrate...
...least, mammograms (combined with self-exams) are the best bet for early detection. If you're a healthy woman, 40 or older, be sure to get a mammogram once a year and check your breasts every month. But also keep an eye out for research news that could change the nature of your next breast exam...