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Mammography: Won't Help if You Don't Use it

From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update
Length: 09:17

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Default-piece-image-1 Mammography is seen as the most effective way to screen for breast cancer. This segment explores its improvements and how its ability to find cancers at very early stages has improved options for treatment and the chances of "living with" cancer. We listen in on part of an exam and discuss how long it takes, its affordibility, and why women should not put it off.

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Mammography is seen as the most effective way to screen for breast cancer. This segment explores its improvements and how its ability to find cancers at very early stages has improved options for treatment and the chances of "living with" cancer. We listen in on part of an exam and discuss how long it takes, its affordibility, and why women should not put it off.

Broadcast History

10/22/07
WSKG Radio
broadcast locally in Morning Edition andAll Things Considered

Transcript

Breast Care: an update
Monday, Oct. 22 - Mammograms

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In the past several years there has been a tremendous push to make the public aware of breast cancer. The primary focus of this media campaign was to urge women over 40 to get annual mammograms.

The benefit of a screening mammogram has been proven in women greater than age 50 to reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by at least 30%.

Having a mammogram and detecting the cancer when it?s small and early before it has a chance to spread anywhere we believe is still one of our best treatment options for the patient and so recommending that they get their mammogram every year to check.

Women should have a baseline mammogram at 40 and then every year after that.

Early detection is definitely the key. I mean that?s the reason to do it year after year. If you had a diagnosis and you find it e...
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