Prevention
A new study finds that women who do not get their first mammogram as the guidelines indicate will continue to miss further screenings and have a 40% higher risk of dying from breast cancer. Eric Brown, M.D., breast surgeon and co-leader of the Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), and Alit Yousf, M.D., diagnostic radiologist, director of breast imaging and member of the Breast Cancer MDT at Karmanos, comment on the study and outline exactly when women should begin breast cancer screenings.
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