Seven myths about mammograms
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WOMEN'S HEALTH
Breast Cancer and Low-Dose Aspirin
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You may be taking low-dose aspirin regularly because its blood-thinning powers are known to stave off heart disease, but some California researchers may have just given you another reason. Their findings indicate that taking low-dose aspirin at least three times per week may reduce a woman's risk of breast cancer by up to 20 percent.
Read MoreNot Your Momma’s Mammogram
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That could be the tagline for a new report just published in JAMA Internal Medicine. A study has shown that over 80 percent of doctors are still recommending annual mammograms for women in their early 40s, even though guideline changes have pushed back the age for yearly breast cancer screening.
Read MoreThe Fibrocystic Breast
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Fibrocystic breasts – those containing lumpy nodular tissue – used to be regarded as a “disease.” But somewhere along the way, “fibrocystic breast disease” got downgraded to merely “fibrocystic breast changes,” probably because more than half of all women experience these changes at one point in their lives.
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