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...risk women in their 40s, ACOG still recommends a mammogram every one to two years and annually after age 50. However, a study released last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association brings into question the use of mammography in women after age 69. Researchers studied 10,000 women to try to determine whether annual mammograms provided enough benefit to warrant their use. The results showed, rather dramatically, that the gains in life expectancy for these elderly women were minimal. With some variation depending on the sample, only 1 death per 10,000 women is likely...
Like millions of American women, I go faithfully to the radiologist for my annual mammogram. Unlike most women, I got a bad report last month. Tiny specks in my breast, called calcifications, looked to my radiologist as if they had changed since the last time I was tested. Her recommendation: a procedure called a needle-localized excisional biopsy...
...produced only by the prostate. His results edge just past normal, which probably means he has an enlarged prostate. No big deal. Or he could have prostate cancer. "This must be our unlucky day," says his wife, also 50, when he tells her. "I just found out that my mammogram is positive." Which spouse is more likely to have cancer...
...chose the wife, guess again. In the U.S., about 30% of men who undergo a biopsy after a mildly elevated PSA test have cancer, compared with just 20% of women biopsied after a suspicious mammogram. But there has been so much negative publicity lately about the limitations of PSA tests that most men don't realize how helpful they...
BETTER THAN A BIOPSY The FDA has approved a handheld imaging device that can help doctors decide whether to perform a biopsy when the results of a mammogram are ambiguous. The device, called T-Scan 2000, sends a tiny jolt of electricity to suspicious breast tissue; potentially malignant cells conduct electricity differently than normal cells do. T-Scan is not meant to replace a mammogram, but it may prevent some 200,000 unnecessary biopsies a year...