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...says Dr. Cady, is to get a baseline mammogram - the American Cancer Society recommends women start getting mammograms at 40, or earlier if there is a strong family history of breast cancer. After the first screening, women should get mammograms every 2 years - or more or less often depending on a physician's recommendation...
...could this be? For starters, the PSA test, like the mammogram, is a less than perfect cancer detector. Men may develop high PSA levels for many reasons: an infection of the prostate, the natural effects of aging, even bruising caused by a long bicycle ride. Or they may have cancer. Only a biopsy can tell for sure...
...first mammogram at age 62 and another a year later. The second one showed a shadow that turned out to be an early cancer that was virulent enough to pass on to my lymph nodes. I had a mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy. Thirteen years later, I am cancer free. Without that mammogram, I wouldn't today be a cancer survivor. Go get that mammogram! BERNICE RUBINSTEIN Baltimore...
...left out one critical consideration: the cost of treatment. When a mammogram or breast exam reveals a lump or calcification, how does an uninsured woman pay for a sonogram or biopsy, let alone surgery and radiation or chemotherapy? What good is early detection if you can't afford treatment? JUDITH PLAYER New York City...
...Mammography is an important and effective early-detection tool that helps to save lives," said Thompson, whose wife learned that she had breast cancer after having a mammogram seven years...