For millions of women, the words “you have dense breasts” can feel both vague and unsettling—especially when it comes after a routine mammogram. Breast density isn’t just a technical term buried in a ...

Up until about two decades ago, all mammograms were done using an X-ray machine, which generated two-dimensional (2D) images of breast tissue. In 2011, however, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

ATLANTA – A new federal rule takes effect Tuesday that could potentially help more women spot breast cancer earlier. The FDA will require mammogram providers across the country to notify women if they ...

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 ...

Throughout the month of October, the color pink transforms into a universal symbol for women's health and breast cancer awareness. The annual tradition of wearing a pink ribbon is a way to show ...

I have been interpreting mammograms for more than 25 years, and I have heard just about every misconception there is about breast screening. Unfortunately, women sometimes delay or even forgo having a ...

MILWAUKEE - After already having been through breast cancer treatment, Michelle Luckiesh did not think twice when doctors at Waukesha Memorial Hospital told her they had a new mammography device that ...

Dense tissue can make cancer harder to see on a standard mammogram because both dense tissue and tumors appear white on ...