Sentence examples for mammographic from inspiring English sources

You can see some examples, both benign and malignant, at Oxford university's online mammographic image database.

The authors, writing in the Journal of Medical Screening, said: "The benefit of mammographic screening in terms of lives saved is greater in absolute terms than the harm in terms of overdiagnosis.

"Analysis of both data sets shows a substantial and significant reduction in breast cancer deaths in association with mammographic screening".

However, it quite possible that including this type of risk assessment may not cost much and may even save money, because it may reduce, for example, the number of women at low risk getting mammographic screening, or the number of men at low risk getting unnecessary PSA tests or biopsies.

Women should be confident that mammographic screening can save lives.

Your Feb. 6 editorial "Circling the Mammography Wagons" focuses on the intense debate regarding mammographic screening.

"Mammogram Clinic's Flaws Highlight Gaps in U.S. Rules" (front page, Oct. 24) revealed many problems with the standards for mammographic use in diagnosing breast cancer.

A recent Swedish review showed that the breast cancer death rate decreased by at least 50percentt as mammographic screening was instituted, with no change in the death rate for women who were not screened, suggesting that the benefit was from screening and not therapy.

But there is something of a silver lining: women who develop breast cancer while on hormone replacement have higher survival rates than nonusers, even though the hormones make breast tissue denser and mammographic detection of tiny cancers more difficult.

The group issued a statement warning of "possible harms and unintended consequences" of the state laws, including confusion, "undue anxiety," a loss of faith in mammograms and "demands for additional non-mammographic screening".