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Tissue stiffness research using TACC's Ranger supercomputer aims to improve early detection efforts One in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Lorraine G. Olson, professor of mechanical engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, was diagnosed in 2005 at the age of 45. Fortunately, her breast cancer was caught early from a routine mammogram, but like many women, she was prodded by her physician...

SAN DIEGO, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Tactile, Inc. (MTI), with the support of The Pre-Mammogram Foundation and Qualcomm Incorporated, today announced that they have developed a pre-commercial SureTouch(TM)( )Wireless system that uses 3G-enabled tactile sensor technology for breast cancer screening. According to a publication funded by the Susan G. Komen Foundation, 1.6 million women worldwide were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 and 425,000 women died from the...

Author David Brown helps women understand and prevent common medical issues SHERWOOD PARK, Alberta (PRWEB) May 18, 2012 David Brown is an experienced medical doctor, and has been offering his advice to patients for years. Now he brings his wisdom to even more people in his new book For the Health of a Woman & the Story of One Tree Hill (published by Trafford Publishing), a collection of advice offering an education on preventing illness and injury. In For the Health of a Woman &...

Image Credit: Photos.com --- Connie K. Ho for RedOrbit.com Researchers recently found that there are more advantages than disadvantages related to breast screening mammograms for women in their 40s who have a higher risk of having breast cancer. The report also states that digital mammography provides more harm than good when compared to film mammography. The study pulled data from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC), the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling...

Expensive but could be cost-effective for some Adding magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to standard breast cancer screening approaches is expensive, though it could be cost effective for a group of women who may not have inherited the breast cancer susceptibility genes, but who have a familial risk of developing the disease. This is the conclusion of research presented at the eighth European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-8) today (Wednesday). Women who carry the BRCA1/2 gene mutations...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pink Lotus Breast Center, a comprehensive and integrative breast center exclusively dedicated to the prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, today announced the unveiling of GE Healthcare's Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography ("CESM") technology at its flagship breast center in Beverly Hills. CESM will be provided at the facility's Sheryl Crow Imaging Center - the first facility in the country to make...

OhioHealth provides list of check-ups men and women should be having on a yearly or even monthly basis Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) December 30, 2011 Because health screenings are important, OhioHealth is providing a check list for 2012. It’s a good idea to get your blood pressure checked, women need to have a mammogram, and eventually men should schedule a prostate exam. Men and women are often unsure of how often to have screenings and what age to begin. Since a new year means a fresh...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – The Canadian task force released new guidelines for women at risk of breast cancer. The guidelines recommend no routine mammography screenings for women aged 40-49 and extend the screening interval from every 2 years, which is current clinical practice, to every 2-3 years for women aged 50-74. The guidelines also recommend that women with no symptoms shouldn’t get clinical breast exams. The guidelines, aimed at physicians and policy-makers, provide recommendations...

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...

MammaCare technology sets standards for clinical breast exams MammaCare, a revolutionary tool that has set standards for teaching women and clinicians how to perform clinical breast exams, is training professionals around the country to detect lumps earlier and save lives. Widely-publicized statistics inform women about the importance of early detection of cancer. The Center for Disease Control reports that second only to skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among...