Posted on 05/19/2015 10:14:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In some states, healthcare providers must tell women if they have dense breasts. Those women sometimes then go on to have additional screenings, such as ultrasound scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs).
But in the new study, the researchers found that not all women with dense breasts have a high enough risk for breast cancer after a normal mammogram to justify having more screening tests.
Instead, they found that two specific groups of women with dense breasts were likely to benefit from extra screening, taking into account their risk for breast cancer in the next five years as calculated using an online tool called the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) score (bit.ly/1PuxYZF).
The first group consists of women with extremely dense breasts and a BCSC-calculated five-year breast cancer risk of 1.67 percent or greater.
The second group consists of women with heterogeneously dense breasts and a BCSC-calculated five-year risk of 2.50 percent or greater.
Women in these specific groups, which represent about a quarter of women with dense breasts, should discuss whether extra screening may be appropriate in addition to a mammogram every two years as recommended for women are 50 to 74, the authors write.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
And so are the breasts.
Maybe that’s where she stored her brains.
They didn’t ask me...
I don’t want to see the rainbow screener for testicular cancer 😵
Don’t pay to have this done. I’ll do it for free.
Gina Lollobrigida was once described as “about five & a half feet tall - lying on her back.”
Sophia Loren when asked why she was never filmed in the nude, replied, “I am not a tiny woman, so when Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness!”
Thanks.
LOL.
5.56mm
The job is critical to the maintenance of quality healthcare in the US, and I propose to take charge immediately.
All right.
You’re in charge of examining those. Hop to it!
bttt
“Unnecessary” is the new “rationing”. That’s how they will say Obamacare didn’t cause rationing.
bingo!
So, the people who did this report can kiss my a$$.
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