By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, March 18 (Reuters) - In the latest installment in the mammogram debate, a new study finds that getting a...

Talk with your doctor about the Gail Model and find out what your level of risk for breast cancer is. And get a mammogram.

How many of you are confused by the seemingly endless rounds of recommendations about breast cancer screenings? I know that I am, and so this post is designed to help answer six essential questions that will help you decide what to do about breast cancer screening.

Regular mammography screening may reduce women's risk of dying from breast cancer by half, according to a new study from the Netherlands. The decrease...

Breast cancer deaths have dropped steadily since 1990, but they have declined at slower rates among women living in poor areas, according to a new rep...

This is the 25th breast cancer awareness month. We are being asked to celebrate that fact -- which is symptomatic of the problem. Why do we try so hard to make breast cancer palatable, comfortable, pink?

Women with more money are healthier, generally, and new data from the CDC shows a strong relationship between income and regular mammography for women over age 49.

When arithmetic is added to mammogram statistics, it yields a clear case of a low probability event with major life-and-death consequences for tens of thousands of people.

In light of the new breast cancer screening guidelines, I asked two experts on the front lines of patient care to join me in a live webcast to provide some perspective.

NEW YORK (AP)- Most women don't need a mammogram in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50, a government task force said Monday. ...

Is the recent government panel ruling changing the recommendations for mammograms similar to that hormone therapy controversy several years back? With things always changing, what are we to do?

My female friends were emailing in outrage at the notion that we may have, once again, been roused by the health care magnates in this country into receiving potentially destructive procedures and treatments.

In the post-feminist United States, issues like rape, domestic violence, and unwanted pregnancy seem to be too edgy for much public discussion, but breast cancer is all apple pie.

If you don't test yourself until you're 50 - then you risk receiving a later diagnosis, which could lead to death. To be blunt: it could kill you.

America, how does it feel to wake up and learn that you can't have healthcare tests that you think you or your loved one needs?