It is a sobering statistic. One in eight women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer in her lifetime -with the majority of these women not even having a family history of breast cancer. October is ...

Breast cancer screening for women at average risk, it should be done every other year beginning at age 40, meaning mammograms should start ten years earlier than previously recommended. The U.S.

Laura Dean, MD, is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist at Cleveland Clinic, where she has been practicing since 2014. She completed her residency at Northwestern University’s Foster McGaw Medical ...

Deciding when to get a routine mammogram is confusing. Breast cancer is so common that it is hard to know who has 'average' risk and how to balance the pros and cons of screening.

The new breast cancer screening guidelines are creating mixed signals on when to start screening. Medical News Today spoke to ...