Policies that increase patients' share of health care expenses decrease the use of discretionary health services but also may reduce the use of important preventive care such as mammography. We ...

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A mammogram is the best test doctors have to detect breast cancer, which is the second most common cancer among women in the United States. If a mammogram is performed early enough, it can find breast ...

Newly updated US Food and Drug Administration regulations will require mammography facilities to notify patients about the density of their breasts. Women with dense breasts are at higher risk for ...

Mammography is possibly the most intensely scrutinized and debated medical procedure of our time, but there is virtually no disagreement on two points. First, there is no other breast cancer screening ...

A child's risk of getting cancer from asbestos insulation in a school building is about one third the chance of being struck by lightning. Nevertheless, in 1993, frightened New York City parents ...

A targeted cue-to-action campaign of outreach, education, and incentive can improve uptake of screening mammography. Objectives: Screening mammography is a preventive exam used to detect breast cancer ...

Mass breast-cancer screening using mammography – a type of x-ray that looks for abnormalities – is passionately advocated by many in the belief that women’s lives will be saved. Many wealthy countries ...