Women are now advised to get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40 and until age 74, according to new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF, a volunteer ...

Only about 75% of eligible U.S. women schedule regular screenings. When it comes to early detection, mammograms remain the only screening test proven to reduce deaths from breast cancer in ...

Aggressive forms of breast cancer may be striking younger women far more often than previously believed, challenging long-held assumptions about who is most at risk. Emerging evidence suggests that ...

Chien-Chi Huang was 40 when she requested her first mammogram at the hospital, shortly after her aunt died from breast cancer. The radiologist didn’t detect a tumor because she had dense breast tissue ...