I am a patient of Dr. Alan B. Hollingsworth, M.D., who is the medical director of the Mercy Women’s Center and Mercy Cancer Resource Center in Oklahoma City. He also serves as Medical Director of Breast MRI of Oklahoma. Dr. Hollingsworth is one of the country’s experts in breast cancer risk assessment and has authored a text on the subject. In reaction to the new […]
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New Guidelines for Breast Screening
There is a lot of confusion about the new mammogram guidelines recently released by the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force. I think it is important to understand what the Task Force based their recommended change in guidelines on. This change was based on the same data that the previous guidelines were based on – i.e., there were no new clinical trials. This is not the […]