New advice for women from a government task force conflicts with the American Cancer Society long-standing recommendation of annual mammographies starting at 40. The new guidelines were issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which influences coverage of screening tests by Medicare and many insurance companies.

In the Telegraph we read that "Doubt has been cast on the effectiveness of breast cancer screening after new research suggested 2970 women must be tested in order to save one life. "

Digital mammograms take longer to interpret than film-screen mammograms, according to a study performed at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Training physicians and caregivers to improve cultural sensitivity and communication with economically disadvantaged African-American patients could influence these women to get mammograms that could save their lives, according to a new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Women who take hormone replacement therapy to ease menopause symptoms have abnormal mammogram results. This makes breast biopsies hard to be detected by doctors.

In an effort to fill a significant gap in the breast care of underserved women, physicians and nurses at Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville, Fla., developed a program, still ongoing, to help overcome barriers that prevent women from receiving timely care after an abnormal mammogram.

Mammogram readings by both radiologists and non-physician technologists improve breast cancer detection rates, according to a study in the July 24 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.