Mammogram Quotes

Women are doing better [at getting mammograms] than they were 15 years ago, but in the last five they are doing worse. The numbers are dropping gradually. - Debbie Saslow

When purchased, the Cancer Society will donate the new digital mammogram machine to the Cayman Islands Hospital so that every woman living in the Cayman Islands will be able to benefit from the new medical facilities. - Christine Sanders

What is worse? A hot flash or a stroke, more mammograms or more breast biopsies? That's the kind of discussion a woman has to have with her physician. - Marcia Stefanick

We expect the results of this clinical study to demonstrate an even higher level of accuracy than either film or digital mammography. With this greatly improved diagnostic accuracy, the BT Test will ultimately become a critical tool in detecting breast cancer without the discomfort and inconvenience of a mammogram. - William Gartner

Those who want to defend the current system are defending the indefensible. Only 4 percent of all women in the Medicaid fee-for-service program are getting mammograms. That's absurd. That's not a successful system, that's a failure. - Alan Levine

They found it in doing my annual mammogram. But it was small, less than 1 centimeter. - Karen Blair

The medical community has us believing that if you get a yearly mammogram, and that mammogram does not show cancer, you're cancer-free. I'm proof that that's not the case. - Barbara Brenner

The findings from this current study may be reassuring because even with the reported increased number of abnormal mammograms and biopsies, there was no reported increase in breast cancer incidence, and there was a significant decrease in the most common type of breast cancer. - Hugh Taylor

The day I found out, the day I got my mammogram and the doctor told me I had breast cancer, it was mid-November. - Victoria Gotti

The American Cancer Society has it right. I do think mammograms save lives. - Donald Berry