Glencoe Regional Health Services has recently installed a new mammography exam system that uses digital breast tomosynthesis technology to produce three-dimensional breast images. In the ...

Mammography units have been upgraded through the years to make the exam more comfortable and shorten the time it takes for the test. New machines, for example, have a contoured paddle shape that ...

Myth 2: Breast self-examinations are better than mammograms.

Annual preventive breast cancer screenings are covered by Medicare without copays, while mammography exams used to formulate ...

I would highly recommend every facility that performs mammograms have one of these available for use with their patients." ...

Screening tests for breast cancer include the breast self-exam (optional), clinical breast exam, and mammogram. Some risk factors that may affect individuals are those that cannot be changed. These ...

Advances in medical science have brought routine mammography screening into the 21st-century.  Across Meeker and McLeod counties, hospitals including Glencoe Regional Health Services, Hutchinson ...