The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force just issued new breast cancer screening guidelines. The guidelines recommend starting mammograms at age 40. Some doctors say the recommendations don’t go far ...

Do you know at what age you’re supposed to start getting yearly mammograms? Despite this being a month packed with reminders to schedule your screening, the guidelines on when you should begin making ...

A federal task force says that women should start getting regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer at age 40, instead of waiting until 50, marking a shift in the influential panel’s guidelines.

Northwest Health Services announced it will host its first Mobile Mammography Bus at its Family Medicine Associates Clinic.

Women should get mammograms every other year starting at age 40, according to updated recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). This is a significant change from previous ...

A new study finds that risk-based breast cancer screening could be as safe as annual mammograms, but an expert warns it may ...

A new study published in JAMA suggests that risk-based breast cancer screening could be a more effective approach than annual mammograms, but some experts fear it would be hard to do in practice.

Over the past decade, breast cancer rates have risen by 1% a year, with the steepest increase occurring in women younger than 50, according to a new report published by the American Cancer Society ...

With the increased buzz around breast ultrasound as the latest and greatest screening advancement, it may come as something of a surprise that mammograms remain the gold standard. While every patient ...

The condition that mammograms can detect — and act as an early warning of heart problems down the road — is called breast arterial calcification, said Matthew Nudy, an assistant professor of medicine ...