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Breast Cancer (Screening)

Mammography: Timing is Everything

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 22nd, 1998

Mammography may detect cancer more effectively in younger women if the test is done during the first two weeks of the menstrual cycle, according to researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.

In a study in the June 17, 1998, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, epidemiologist Emily White, PhD, and colleagues from the Hutchinson Center's Division of Public Health Sciences, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, and the University of Washington are the first to report an association between menstrual phase and breast density as detected on a mammogram.

The researchers found that as the menstrual...

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