Latest Breast cancer screening Stories

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care issues updated guidelines New breast cancer screening guidelines for women at average risk of breast cancer, published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/site/embargo/cmaj110334.pdf, recommend no routine mammography screening for women aged 40-49 and extend the screening interval from every 2 years, which is current clinical practice, to every 2 to 3 years for women aged 50-74. The...

BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hologic, Inc. (Hologic or the Company) (Nasdaq: HOLX), a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics products, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, will feature some of its newest women's health products at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) at McCormick Place in Chicago, November 26...

LONGMONT, Colo., Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Parascript, LLC, the image analysis and pattern recognition technology provider, today announced the release of AccuDetect 5.0, the next generation of its computer-aided detection (CAD) software, aimed at helping radiologists improve breast cancer detection. AccuDetect 5.0 makes significant performance improvements over its predecessor and further reduces the potential for false-positive rates when detecting suspicious lesions on mammograms....

Adding to research linking alcohol to breast cancer risk, a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that adolescent girls with a family history of breast disease — either cancer or the benign lesions that can become cancer – have a higher risk of developing benign breast disease as young women than other girls. And unlike girls without a family history, this already-elevated risk rises with increasing alcohol consumption. "The most common question we...

Alcohol consumption by adolescents may increase breast cancer risk in those with a family history of the disease Breast cancer patients often wonder what their daughters might do to reduce their risk of also developing cancer. Are there dietary intakes or behaviors that can be modified by their daughters to lower their own chances of getting the disease? A new study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, sought information relevant to this...

New breast care data shows improvement but many providers still cannot demonstrate quality CHICAGO, Nov. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a time when there is increased discussion about when women over 40 should receive routine mammography screenings and concern over mammography's effectiveness, the State of Illinois is taking a major step forward to improve the quality of mammography. At the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force's 2011 "Uniting to End...

The American Society of Breast Surgeons supports annual screening mammography for women age 40 and older. (PRWEB) November 03, 2011 The American Society of Breast Surgeons, the leading organization for surgeons who treat breast disease, today released a video statement explaining its continued support of annual screening mammography for women age 40 and older. The video, is an easy-to-understand follow-up to the Society’s official position statement, published in August, that...

Mothers, sisters and daughters from breast cancer families with known genetic mutations do not all share the same high risk of developing the disease, according to a new international study involving the University of Melbourne. Women with the breast cancer genetic mutations BRCA1 or BRCA2 are at least 10 times more likely to develop breast cancer than the average woman. The new study found that women who do not have a genetic mutation, but are closely related to women who do have...

US researchers on Monday revealed that women do not automatically have a greater risk of developing breast cancer just because someone in their family tested positive for breast cancer genes. The findings are based on analysis of more than 3,000 families including women with breast cancer. Researchers found that close relatives of women who carry mutations in a BRCA gene -- but do not have the mutation themselves -- do not have an increased risk of developing breast cancer compared to...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – The largest study of its kind shows that women related to a patient with breast cancer caused by a hereditary mutation, but who don’t have the mutation themselves, have no higher risk of developing cancer than relatives of patients with other types of breast cancer. This contradicts previous research conducted four years ago that said that a familial BRCA mutation in and of itself was a risk factor. "The results are encouraging and reassuring," Allison Kurian, MD,...