Mammogram
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New St. Joe’s breast cancer screening tech should increase capacity, allow new techniquesA $1.62 million donation to St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation is making the network a one-stop-shop for breast cancer screening and detection.HealthOct 24, 2023
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How this AI mammogram could help detect breast cancer years in advanceThe technology uses AI to provide women with personalized risk estimations one to two years ahead of time, even when a current mammogram comes back clear.CanadaSep 14, 2023
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AI proven to safely improve breast cancer detection accuracy, study findsThe study found that AI-supported mammograms were able to safely cut doctor mammogram screen-reading workload by half.CanadaAug 4, 2023
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The U.S. may lower the breast cancer screening age to 40. Should Canada follow?The U.S. health task force has suggested that women undergo breast cancer screening ten years earlier than the current most common mammogram recommendation.HealthMay 11, 2023
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Breast cancer survivor calls for access to routine mammograms for all Canadian women in their 40s'Eighty per cent of women who get breast cancer have no family history ... so we can't restrict it to just women with a family history,' said Dr. Jane Seely of The Ottawa Hospital.HealthNov 3, 2022
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400,000 fewer mammograms during pandemic, more advanced cancer now seen: OMAAlthough screenings have since returned to normal levels, the organization warned the temporary decrease in testing has led to cases of the disease being diagnosed at later stages.HealthOct 12, 2022
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Newfoundland health authority reviewing about 3,000 mammograms for possible issuesThe health authority will review its mammogram viewing procedures and look at whether this error occurred because staff had been working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.HealthAug 24, 2022
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Studies that shaped Canada’s breast cancer screening guidelines ‘flawed,’ researchers sayA group of Canadian and American researchers has called into question the 1980s studies that shaped Canada's modern-day breast cancer screening guidelines.HealthNov 24, 2021
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Thousands of breast cancer screenings in Hamilton and area skipped amid COVID pandemicHamilton Health Sciences says screenings essentially shut down amid the first wave of the pandemic but returned in July 2020.HealthOct 13, 2021
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‘Outdated’ breast cancer screening guidelines failing Canadian women: reportEach province has its own set of guidelines and not all let women book their own mammograms in their 40s, when the risk of breast cancer increases, experts say.HealthOct 3, 2021
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