Women's Health
Making smart screening decisions: Part 2: Breast cancer
Learn which breast cancer screening tests you need, and when to have them.
Considering that one out of every eight of us will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, screening for this disease is among the most important tests we'll ever have. In recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Harvard Women's Health Watch asked Dr. Pamela DiPiro, assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School to help us make sense of breast cancer screening recommendations.
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