Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, based in Park Ridge, Ill., became the first hospital in the Midwest to offer its patients 3D mammography, according to a Park Ridge Trib Local report. The ...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and an annual reminder that getting a regular mammogram is currently the most effective tool available for detecting breast cancer early. Cancer treatment is ...

Three-dimensional imaging outperformed older digital mammography at reducing anxiety-producing callbacks for more breast cancer testing, a new study shows. The research, published this month in the ...

The newer, 3D form of breast screening, known as digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), is more effective at detecting breast cancer than traditional 2D digital mammography (DM). That's the conclusion of ...

One of the biggest hopes for 3D mammograms, the new generation of breast cancer screening, was that they would reduce the number of times a result looked abnormal even though there was no cancer. Such ...

CBS NEWS - Newer, three-dimensional mammograms may be better at picking up invasive tumors and avoiding false alarms than traditional breast cancer screening methods, a study of 13 U.S. hospitals ...

SALEM – Two walk-in screening mammogram events will be held in October at ARC Medical Imaging’s new Canfield and Columbiana locations. Expanded walk-in hours for mammograms will be offered at ARC’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While experts are sympathetic to the stress false positives can cause, they're urging women to keep going to annual screenings, ...

Contrast-enhanced mammography is a new imaging test that uses an IV contrast injection to help doctors detect breast cancer ...

WASHINGTON -- Women are now advised to get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40 and until age 74, according to new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF, a ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm about to turn 40, and I'm nervous about getting my first mammogram. I hear they can be uncomfortable or even painful. Is breast cancer screening really that important? A common ...