(HealthDay News) Contrary to some other findings, new research indicates that mammograms and breast self-exams are useful for the detection of breast cancer, including cancers in younger women…
These authors reviewed data on almost 6,000 women in Michigan, average age 59, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
They found that two-thirds of tumors were found on a mammography and 30 percent by palpation, either from a breast self-exam (90 percent) or from a doctor's exam (10 percent)…
About 73 percent of women who had had a mammography (where cancers tended to be diagnosed at a later stage) had a lumpectomy, vs. only 54 percent of those who had found their tumor by palpation.
Chemotherapy was also given more frequently in the palpation group, said [study co-author Dr. Jamie] Caughran.
Most women (81 percent) who had their cancers detected on a mammogram were over the age of 50. Forty percent of women whose tumors were found by palpation were under 50.
Community: Mammography is clearly superior to palpation for finding breast cancer tumors.
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