This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

Breast cancer death rates have dropped 39 percent over the past 26 years, according to an Oct. 3 report from the American Cancer Society. Much of that is due to the measures taken for early detection ...

Screening and early diagnosis has an important role in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with breast cancer. Mammography has an established role and has been approved for routine ...

Lately, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used for screening of women with a high risk of breast cancer, but it has not been used widely because the cost is significant and availability is ...

What if I Got a Whole-Body MRI? Fred Hutch and UW Medicine radiologists do not provide reinterpretations of whole-body MRIs. If you’ve had a whole-body MRI screening and have a question or concern ...

While screening every 2 years with mammography alone had the lowest total costs, it also resulted in only 47 quality-adjusted life years (QALY) gained. However, screening with MRI alone every 4 years ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. - MRI screening improves early diagnosis of breast cancer in all women-not only those at high risk-according to a new study from Germany published online in the journal Radiology. MRI ...

For women with extremely dense breasts, screening with MRI alone every 4 years is cost-effective and delivers the greatest benefit, the first study of its kind indicates. Alternatively, if a woman ...

While there has been some controversy over when women should start getting mammograms, all experts agree that screening is an important first step in detecting breast cancers and treating them early.

Screening for prostate cancer is burdened by a high rate of overdiagnosis. The most appropriate algorithm for population-based screening is unknown. We invited 37,887 men who were 50 to 60 years of ...

Most countries have not introduced nationwide prostate-cancer screening, as current methods result in overdiagnoses and excessive and unnecessary biopsies. A new study by researchers at Karolinska ...