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A nurse’s plea to the people

May 17, 2017

It’s a sunny spring day in Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. It is a city, country I have grown to love and call my second home. I moved…

False-positive mammograms may indicate increased risk for breast cancer later in life

December 3, 2015

Women with a history of a false-positive mammogram result may be at increased risk of developing breast cancer for up to 10 years after the false-positive result, according…

FDA clears patient-assisted mammography system

September 8, 2017

On Sept. 1, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the first 2D digital mammography system that allows patients to increase or decrease the amount of compression…

Mammographic screening benefits may be overestimated

July 9, 2015

The mortality risk reduction benefits of mammographic screening have been overestimated, according to a study in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Read more and read the…