Definition of mammography
: X-ray examination of the breasts (as for early detection of cancer)
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More than 93,600 black women living in big cities from 1980 to 2010 were included in the data set (approximately 14,000 from Chicagoland), which looked at neighborhood racial composition and segregation, poverty rates and access to mammography.
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Initiatives for the Kleinwell Healthy Living Program are annual health screenings, flu and immunization shots, on-site mammography screenings, exercise challenges, healthy eating challenges, health assessments, and educational seminars.
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The death rate from breast cancer had been unchanged for at least 40 years prior to the start of mammography screening in the U.S. in the mid-1980s.
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The Ascension Seton Mobile Dental Clinic, now visiting schools in the Milwaukee area, and a mobile mammography clinic for Aspirus, a health system based in Wausau, are two examples of its recent work.
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Their office also offers digital mammography, bone density testing, breast MRI, breast biopsy and ultrasound services.
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In addition, some of the mammography systems require both 2-D and 3-D X-rays, which can expose women to twice as much radiation.
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Belk ended its mobile mammography unit last year, for instance.
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In addition, Victory Women's Imagine Center has relocated to the new facility and is offering 3-D mammography, breast ultrasound, bone density screenings, breast MRI services and biopsies, and other female health-care services.
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First Known Use of mammography
1937
Medical Dictionary
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