Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force. Women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year, the group said.

Deciding when to get a routine mammogram is confusing. Guidelines disagree on whether to begin at age 40, 45 or 50, and whether a yearly scan is best.

Oct. 17 is National Mammography Day, observed annually on the third Friday of every October, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The National Breast Cancer Foundation says National Mammography Day ...

WASHINGTON -- Women are now advised to get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40 and until age 74, according to new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Breast density raises the risk of breast cancer and can also make it more difficult for breast cancer to be detected. picture ...

If, after reading the latest recommendation on breast cancer screening by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), you feel like your head is spinning, that’s understandable. The ...

A federal task force says that women should start getting regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer at age 40, instead of waiting until 50, marking a shift in the influential panel’s guidelines.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While experts are sympathetic to the stress false positives can cause, they're urging women to keep going to annual screenings, ...

Population-based pathogenic variant testing identified breast cancer susceptibility gene carriers who would often be missed by clinical risk models, even when polygenic risk scores were added. In the ...