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...National Mammography Day, a dispute was erupting over the government's attitude toward the X-ray tests that are the best means of detecting a breast cancer before it becomes incurable. NCI was considering making a new recommendation: women in their 40s should no longer be given routine mammograms unless there is some reason, like a family history of the disease, to suspect a higher-than-normal risk. While studies have proved the value of the test in women 50 and older, the available research suggests that mammograms in younger women do not spot tumors well enough to produce...
Troyan said that the best means by which to detect a growth is by the mammogram, a process which accurately identifies 85 to 90 percent of tumors, coupled with a self exam...
Scientists are working to fine-tune one method, known as fine needle aspiration biopsy, in which surgeons are guided to a tumor detectable only by mammogram...
...FACE VALUE, THE LEAKS DESCRIBING A major medical study last week were profoundly disturbing. It's already known that about 1 in 9 American women will develop breast cancer during her life. Now, said the report, it turns out that women ages 40 to 49 who get routine mammograms to detect early breast cancer are actually more likely to die from the disease than those who avoid the tests. Most experts currently believe it's the other way around, and many doctors have long urged women in that age group to have a mammogram every year...
Colleen Fallscheer, a cheerful 40-year-old mother of two from Waterford, Mich., is living proof that breast-cancer therapy is not the horror show it used to be. A little over a year ago, a mammogram revealed a bright malignant spot, no more than 1.5 cm (about 0.6 in.) across, imbedded in the translucent tissue of her left breast. A surgeon recommended a mastectomy, to be followed by chemotherapy. Fallscheer was appalled. She sought a second opinion from David August, a surgical oncologist at the University of Michigan Medical Center, who told her that her tiny malignancy made...