Women looking for clarity on when to begin screening mammograms, and how often to get them thereafter, often find the guidance offered online in lay language just as baffling as the conflicting advice emanating from the relevant medical societies, associations and task forces that have official opinions on the matter. 

A new PET-guided method to monitoring tumor growth could help doctors identify the ways cancer avoids certain kinds of treatment. Researchers published the results of a trial studying this method in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 

Crunching the data on screening mammography utilization in the wake of the establishment of Medicare’s Shared Savings Program, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found what they’re calling “small but significant” improvements: From 2012 to 2014, participating ACOs grew their screening volumes by a mean of 2.6 percent.

A website offering information about dense breasts, Dense Breast Info, wants women to be aware of their services, even though they aren’t always the first result in an internet search about breast density. 

Women who receive false-positive mammograms may be disconcerted, aggravated or otherwise put off by the experience, but they don’t subsequently abandon screening mammography guidelines en masse, according to a study running in the September edition of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

According to a new study published in the journal Clinical Radiology, targeted second-look ultrasounds and ultrasound-targeted biopsies are relatively cheap and useful for young women who are at high risk of breast cancer who have already undergone MRIs. 

The breast health organization Are You Dense? released two new resources for Spanish-speaking women to learn about their breast health and breast cancer screening options. The organization’s partnership with Madre Latina, called EMPOWERED, encourages Hispanic women in general to be the “ambassadors of [their] own lives.” 

Many patients who look to their local hospital’s website for educational information on screening mammography come away flummoxed by what they find, according to a study published online Sept. 9 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.