Word: mammograms
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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Rosoff chose not to administer a biopsy or mammogram, which are common diagnostic procedures...
Phyllis J. Kornguth, chief of mammography atthe Yale School of Medicine, and Charles S.Lipson, a New Bedford surgeon, testified thatRosoff should have given Thrope a mammogram, anX-ray exam of the breasts, Allar said...
...interview this week, Rosoff's lawyer,Barbara H. Buell, said Rosoff had no reason toadminister a mammogram...
Buell said it is not standard procedure to givemammograms to women of Thrope's young age. Thefact that Thrope was pregnant at the time and thepossibility that radiation from the X ray could beharmful contributed to Rosoff's decision not toadminister a mammogram, she said...