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Breast Cancer
Mammography causes no undue pain
February 24th, 2005
The assumption that women avoid mammograms for fear of pain is challenged in a study published in the February 2005 issue of The American Journal of Roentgenology, which finds that women undergoing screening mammography report minimal levels of distress. "I think it's an old wives tale that mammograms hurt," says the study's lead author Alice Domar, PhD, director of the Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Boston IVF and senior psychologist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). "Our results showed that women find mammograms to be a very benign experience." According to the American...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-02-24)
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