A study by leading European cancer agencies- published Thursday in the journal BMJ– suggests that mammograms aimed at finding breast cancer might actually raise the chances of developing it in young women whose genes put them at higher risk for the disease. The radiation from mammograms might be especially harmful to them, so an MRI
A study by leading European cancer agencies- published Thursday in the journal BMJ– suggests that mammograms aimed at finding breast cancer might actually raise the chances of developing it in young women whose genes put them at higher risk for the disease. The radiation from mammograms might be especially harmful to them, so an MRI is probably a safer method of screening women under 30 who are at high risk because of gene mutations, the researchers concluded. The study can't prove a link between the radiation and breast cancer, but is one of the biggest studies ever to look at the issue.
Yahoo! News/ Associated Press, 9/7/2012
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