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...BREAST CANCER 4% Drop, between 2000 and 2005, in the percentage of U.S. women age 40 and older who reported having a mammogram in the previous two years. In a 2000 survey, 70% of women had had one; five years later, only 66% had 28% Increase in breast-cancer-research spending by the National Cancer Institute over the same five years, topping $560 million...
...test before being comfortable with calling off a biopsy. Barr already has that in the works. He is preparing a multicenter international trial with 2,000 patients that will start in January and take about a year. In the interim, women should not forget a yearly mammogram starting at age 40. For now, it remains the gold standard of breast-cancer screening...
...September Friedman had watched long enough. An internist in a practice that covers much of southern Wisconsin, she went to her radiology department to schedule a mammogram. The administrators turned her down: her HMO paid for routine mammograms every two years, and she'd had one 18 months before. "I said, 'Wait a minute, I feel a lump. This is not routine.' They still wouldn...
This is the stuff bad movies are made of. Friedman had to appeal to the HMO's board of directors. "I said, 'I'll pay for my own mammogram. Just let me get it done.'" She won her appeal and finally had the test. "They didn't even have to do a biopsy," she says. "The radiologist just looked at it and said, 'Oh, my God. You've got breast cancer...
Women whose breast cancer is found by mammogram may have a 53% better survival rate than those whose cancer is discovered another way, says a study at Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Reason: mammograms can better detect slower-growing tumors...