Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Radiological examination of the breasts to detect tumors.
- noun The procedure performed to produce a mammogram.
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- noun medicine
X-ray examination of thebreasts for diagnosing and locating abnormalities, especiallytumours .
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- noun a diagnostic procedure to detect breast tumors by the use of X rays
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also, not surprisingly, routine premenopausal mammography is practiced by no nation other than the U.S.
Samuel S. Epstein: Breast Cancer Unawareness Month: Rethinking Mammograms Samuel S. Epstein 2010
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You should talk to your doctor and make an informed decision about whether a mammography is right for you based on your family history, general health, and personal values.
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LUDDEN: Richard Knox, I was interested to read that mammography is not as effective as screening methods for some other kinds of cancer.
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In the U.S., where some 45,000 women die each year of breast cancer, we'd save approximately 4500 lives per year if the added value of mammography is only 10 percent.
Dr. Elaine Schattner: Holes in the Evidence on the Value of Screening Mammograms Dr. Elaine Schattner 2010
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As an oncologist, I find this highly-plausible; the purpose of mammography is to identify tumors in early stage and spare women morbidity and mortality associated from advanced disease.
Dr. Elaine Schattner: Holes in the Evidence on the Value of Screening Mammograms Dr. Elaine Schattner 2010
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In many respects, they were trying to say that mammography is imperfect.
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Also, not surprisingly, routine premenopausal mammography is practiced by no nation other than the U.S.
Samuel S. Epstein: Breast Cancer Unawareness Month: Rethinking Mammograms Samuel S. Epstein 2010
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If the benefit of screening mammography is higher -- say in the range of 45 percent, as was supported by a 2007 paper, also published in the NEJM -- then the value would exceed 20,000 women's lives per year.
Dr. Elaine Schattner: Holes in the Evidence on the Value of Screening Mammograms Dr. Elaine Schattner 2010
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Although mammography is able to spot tumors as small as an eighth of an inch, which contain eight million cells, the average size at diagnosis with mammography is about 600 million cells.
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As a result, mammography is only leading physicians to diagnose an ever-larger number of harmless tumors.
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