Breast pain, lumps, swelling and abnormalities seen in mammograms have become a commonality for women after getting the COVID vaccine. Experts say to still continue to get your regularly scheduled mammogram. COVID vaccinations were first released at the end of 2020 and are continuing to be developed and studied. One of the common side effects…
Topic: What Innovations Are Coming Down the Pike for Breast Cancer? Innovations occur in medicine all the time. Some happen quickly, like the unprecedented speed with which the COVID-19 vaccines were developed. Others take more time to develop, as researchers leverage current knowledge and new ideas to develop novel pathways toward diagnosis, treatment, and survival…
Topic: This AI tool helps identifies breast cancer with 90% accuracy rate An artificial intelligence tool—trained on roughly a million screening mammography images—can identify breast cancer with approximately 90% accuracy when combined with radiologist analysis, a new study finds. The study examined the ability of a type of artificial intelligence (AI), a machine learning computer…
Topic: When to Get a Mammogram Expert groups often disagree with each other on breast cancer screening. CR makes sense of the different recommendations. Every October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which always brings a flurry of reminders to women to stay up to date with their mammograms: X-rays that help detect lesions in the…