Cancer screening poses a quandary for women with dense breast tissue. They’re at elevated risk for breast cancer, but mammograms often miss tumors buried in dense breasts — and insurers often resist ...

Three-dimensional imaging outperformed older digital mammography at reducing anxiety-producing callbacks for more breast cancer testing, a new study shows. The research, published this month in the ...

For millions of women, the words "you have dense breasts" can feel both vague and unsettling-especially when it comes after a routine mammogram. Breast density isn’t just a technical term buried in a ...

If you have health insurance, your screening mammograms may be covered at no cost to you. Without insurance, you can still get free or low-cost mammograms through various organizations. Mammogram ...

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which means it's time to talk about everyone's favorite topic (kidding!), mammograms. Though it's an uncomfortable — literally — topic, mammograms are as critical ...

Medicare covers at least one mammogram per year for women over 40. You can get your first mammogram between age 35 and 39, then one every year to check for breast cancer. Medicare will pay for more ...

Original Medicare (parts A and B) covers both screening and diagnostic mammograms, but coverage rules and costs can vary based on mammogram type and Medicare plan type. Under Medicare Part B, baseline ...

Contrast-enhanced mammography identified three times as many tumors as ultrasound scans. But it is not widely used for screening in the United States. By Roni Caryn Rabin Cancer screening poses a ...