All Posts: mammography

• Starting Mammography at Age 40 Would Reduce Disparities in Deaths for Black Women

  WASHINGTON (October 18, 2021) — If Black women begin mammography screening every other year starting at age 40, breast cancer deaths could be reduced by 57 percent compared to starting screening 10 years later, according to analyses conducted by a modeling team that is part of the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET), funded […]

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, cancer screening, health disparities, mammography, racial disparities

• First-of-Its-Kind Clinical Trial at Georgetown Puts Mammography Technologies Under the Spotlight

  (July 31, 2020) — In the field of breast screening, 3D imaging, or tomosynthesis mammography, has become the go-to screening modality over conventional digital mammography in recent years. But does 3D screening actually improve detection of — and survival from — life-threatening breast cancers, or does conventional mammography perform just as well at a lower […]

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: 3D mammography, breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, mammography