Providers must be aware of age and how it impacts a patient’s care pathway after an MRI or other scan, experts wrote in JAMA Surgery. 

For the challenge, eight teams were tasked with developing algorithms capable of achieving high sensitivity for lesion detection on DBT exams.

The Susan G. Komen organization has lobbied for the proposals and recently touted them in a series of separate announcements. 

Mammography screening trends had remained flat, but they fell across all age groups after the USPSTF issued new guidelines in 2009.

New research suggests that the tissue environment where microcalcifications of the breast are formed could hold clues into how breast cancer progresses.

New data suggest that it may not be necessary for women older than 65 with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer to undergo radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery and hormone therapy, as it does not impact death rates or metastasis risk.

Preoperative ultrafast MRI could help guide biopsy and surgical management decision in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ. 

Whether poor, wealthy or somewhere in between, women being treated for breast cancer tend to suffer significant financial setbacks.