In Nigeria, women used a breast model to learn techniques of self breast examination.

That's why mammograms find over 80 percent of tumors in fatty breasts, but as few as 40 percent in extremely dense breasts.

Should it be a mastectomy? Should it be a lumpectomy?

And it had a breast on one side, too.

Has she got the tattoo on her chest?

And my breasts. You like them?

Which do you like better, my breasts or my nipples?

MBI generates four images per breast.

The women are very good about getting mammograms now.

For women without dense breasts, mammography is the best choice.

The second, the Canadian National Breast Screening Study, which began in the 1980s, also used annual mammograms and breast examinations for the screened group. But, in the control group, women aged 50 59 also received annual clinical breast examinations, and women aged 40 49 were given a single breast examination.

Cancer among Women and Mammograms

Mammograms are now used only for women recognized as at high risk for breast cancer.

Australia's national mammographic screening programme, BreastScreen Australia, introduced in 1991, is aimed at achieving significant reductions in mortality and morbidity from breast cancer through early detection of the disease.

She came to see me after discovering a breast lump.

Mammography's the only one that's been around long enough to have a chance of making that claim.

He took hold of one breast.

Because the breast has become are very political organ.

The dresser had to lower my neckline to show more of my boobs.

And fourth and most important, the mammography debate will rage on, but I do believe that all women 40 and older should have an annual mammogram.

Well, you need to read the details of your mammography report.

Both tumors and dense breast tissue appear white on a mammogram, and the X ray often can't distinguish between the two.

So digital mammography has been a giant leap forward for manufacturers of digital mammography equipment, but it's been a very small step forward for womankind.

Look, Fräulein, haben Sie eine tattoo on your, um... glockenspiel?

Fellas, you won't believe this... but one of them is yellow.

She turned around, took his head in both hands and gave him her breast.

There's a shortage of radiologists qualified to read mammograms, and that's because mammograms are one of the most complex of all radiology studies to interpret, and because radiologists are sued more often over missed breast cancer than any other cause.

At the time my patient posed this question to me, breast density was an obscure topic in the radiology literature, and very few women having mammograms, or the physicians ordering them, knew about this.

Of those that don't abort, atrazine causes impaired mammary, or breast, development in the exposed daughters in utero, so that their breast don't develop properly.

After the injection, the patient's breast is placed between the detectors.

You then have some body part descriptions It's in the liver, in the breast, in the prostate.

Not a swelling breast nor a high bosom in sight.

All the time I had Katarina beside me with her breasts and thick thighs.

Mammography isn't perfect, but it's the only test that's been proven to reduce mortality from breast cancer.

BreastScreen Australia provides free breast cancer screening and assessment services at two yearly intervals to women aged between 50 and 69 years.

And on the right we learn that there's a new way to support your breast.

The Pap Program held its fifth Pap Awareness Campaign in October 2004.

The State of Connecticut became the first and only state to mandate that women receive notification of their breast density after a mammogram.

So I studied her mammogram, and I reviewed the radiology literature, and I was shocked to discover that, in her case, our chances of finding a tumor early on the mammogram were less than the toss of a coin.

You may be surprised to know that mammography is the only radiologic study that's regulated by federal law, and the law requires that the equivalent of a 40 pound car battery come down on your breast during this study.

Two thirds of women in their 40s have dense breast tissue, which is why mammography doesn't work as well in them.

In India, in the first year of life, from zero to one, boy and girl babies basically survive at the same rate because they depend upon the breast, and the breast shows no son preference.

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Women of child bearing age family planning, reproductive health counselling, cervical uterine cytology, and breast examinations

Mammography relies on differences in the appearance of the tumor from the background tissue, and we've seen that those differences can be obscured in a dense breast.