DAVIS – New research out of UC Davis shows an alarming statistic when it comes to women and mammograms. To understand the latest study out of UC Davis, you have to know what a false positive is. In ...

One of the biggest hopes for 3D mammograms, the new generation of breast cancer screening, was that they would reduce the number of times a result looked abnormal even though there was no cancer. Such ...

Women who received a false positive after a mammogram screening are more likely to either delay or skip subsequent mammograms, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, ...

A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has shed light on a concerning issue in mammogram screening behavior, women who receive false-positive results are significantly less likely ...

The United States spends an estimated $4 billion each year for false-positive mammograms and breast cancer overdiagnoses, according to a recent study published in Health Affairs. For the study, ...

Women who have an abnormal mammogram should stay vigilant for cancer for for the next decade, even when follow-up tests fail to detect cancer, a study released Wednesday finds. That's because there's ...

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Women who have had false-positive results on mammograms may face a greater risk of future breast cancer, according to a new study led by a UNC-Chapel Hill researcher. The findings ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Some radiologists report false positive cancer readings in mammogram X-rays almost 16 percent of the time, with younger and more recently trained doctors making more interpretation ...

Depending on when they received their last mammogram, women who receive a false-positive result are more or less likely to get screened at recommended intervals, according to preliminary findings from ...

Bottom Line: Women who had a false positive result from a screening mammogram were more likely to delay or forgo their subsequent screening mammogram than women who had a true negative result. Journal ...

In 2009, a government advisory group sent women and their doctors into a frenzy when it rolled back recommendations for annual breast cancer screening for most women. Saying that routine mammograms ...