Katie Couric was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year after a routine mammogram. Here’s how often you should get checked and what kind of screening you need, particularly if you have dense breasts.
Her diagnosis of a stage 1A, olive-sized tumor, though, shined an even greater light on the issue. “Please get your annual mammogram. I was six months late this time. I shudder to think what might have happened if I had put it off longer,” she wrote. “But just as importantly, please find out if you need additional screening.”
Breast cancer death rates dropped by 40% between 1990 and 2017 as awareness campaigns drew attention to mammograms. “The recent advancement in treatment and improvement in breast cancer survival is due in part to routine screening,” said Nancy Chan, MD, a medical oncologist and director of breast cancer clinical research also at NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center.
Like Dr. Leung, Christine Staeger-Hirsch, an attending physician of Breast Imaging at Montefiore Health System, follows guidelines from the American College of Radiology. An MRI was how Brande Plotnick, a healthcare product marketing manager in Ambler, Pennsylvania, was diagnosed at age 48.
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