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UNC Rex Healthcare is making it easier for communities to keep up with annual breast screenings, by bringing the service to them. Clinicians say outreach efforts like this allow them to better reach patients in harder-to-reach areas, while combatting myths surrounding mammograms.
This initiative aims to enhance community health and make early detection more accessible.
House Bill 297, which has garnered bipartisan support, passed unanimously in the House Health Committee and seeks to ensure that diagnostic and supplemental breast exams are covered to the same extent as mammograms.
One in 8 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society.
By Katia Hetter, CNN
While most insurance covers common mammograms, more detailed tests like MRI and ultrasound can cost more out-of-pocket.
Grace Hayba, WRAL health reporter
According to the latest Vital Signs study, 65% of women ages 50-74 with three or more health-related social needs, are keeping up with regular mammograms. About a third are not.
Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Scores are a tool used by medical professionals to help determine a patient's risk of developing cancer.
In recent years, AI software that helps radiologists detect problems or diagnose cancer using mammography has been moving into clinical use.
By Michelle Andrews, KFF Health News
A new non-invasive screening test could help diagnose breast cancer, potentially saving many lives.
Breast cancer screening saves lives, but when to start screening hasn't always been clear. While the age to start has been debated in recent years, most experts now agree that women should start having mammograms at age 40.
The US Preventive Services Task Force is proposing that all women at average risk of breast cancer start screening at age 40 to reduce their risk of dying from the disease, according to a new draft recommendation statement.
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
KECSKEMÉT, Hungary -- Inside a dark room at Bács-Kiskun County Hospital outside Budapest, Dr. Éva Ambrózay, a radiologist with more than two decades of experience, peered at a computer monitor showing a patient's mammogram.
Adam Satariano and Cade Metz, New York Times
With help from family, friends and even thier pup, a Harnett County couple fought cancer side-by-side.
From a young age, 73-year-old Karen Smith of Broadway in Harnett County was aware of her risk of the disease.
Rick Armstrong, WRAL photojournalist
Here's what your state lawmakers are up to today as a legislative deadline approaches.
Go back and get checked, but don't freak out.
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Go Ask Mom editor
Some women are finding swollen lymph nodes after getting their COVID-19 vaccine -- but radiologists are telling them not to panic.
The COVID-19 vaccine is causing fear for some women whose post-shot side effects are mimic symptoms of breast cancer.
Research shows the coronavirus vaccine is raising red flags on mammograms.
Sloane Heffernan, WRAL anchor/reporter
An alarming number of women are putting off recommended breast cancer screenings due to COVID-19 concerns.
Debra Morgan, anchor/reporter, and Rick Armstrong, photojournalist
That includes mammograms, which can help catch breast cancer early when its more easily treated.
A lawsuit was filed on New Year's Eve against Raleigh Radiology LLC just a couple of weeks after services there were suspended after a review of their technical quality.
