When Margie Singleton felt a lump in her left breast in the summer of 2017, she didn’t panic. Her routine mammograms, including one six months earlier, had always come back normal. What the ...

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 ...

3D mammograms haven't yet been proven to be the best screening tool for breast cancer, but more women in the United States are getting them. From 2015 to 2017, 3D mammography screening increased from ...

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 ...

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 ...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to remind women aged 40 and above to get their yearly mammograms. Mammograms are important because they help find breast cancer early, when it’s easier ...

Breast cancer screenings can feel like a lot to manage. But here's what matters most: Catching breast cancer early through the right screening can be truly lifesaving. In fact, the American Cancer ...

A new study is highlighting the benefits of 3D mammograms. The breast cancer screening technology takes a more in-depth look at breast cancer – and as a result, it’s been able to increase detections ...

Dense tissue can make cancer harder to see on a standard mammogram because both dense tissue and tumors appear white on imaging. For some women, additional screening such as ultrasound, MRI, or 3D ...