All Articles on Breast Cancer

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  Few benefits seen for ultrasonograms for women with dense breasts

  Dense breasts are a risk factor for breast cancer, and the more dense breasts are, the more difficult it can be to detect cancer on mammograms. Many state regulations have been enacted—and more proposed—requiring health providers to tell women if their mammogram shows their breasts are dense.
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  How can radiologists detect breast cancer more accurately?

  Research suggests having radiologists do diagnostic workups of some of their own recalled cases can help improve accuracy.
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  Wall Street Journal shines light on our patient researchers

  As patients assume their groundbreaking role in breast cancer research at KPWHRI, the national press takes notice.
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  Getting to Goldilocks: ‘Just right’ breast screening

  For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Diana Buist tells how Kaiser Permanente research helps women and their doctors decide if, when, and how to screen.
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  Lemonade from lemons: Breast cancer group gains momentum

  Group Health believes women with breast cancer need their own support group. Thanks to a grant from the Group Health Foundation’s Partnership for Innovation, the Lemonade group was born.
• Recently using some birth control pills may raise breast cancer risk

  Women who recently used birth control pills containing high-dose estrogen and a few other formulations had an increased risk for breast cancer, whereas women using some other formulations did not, according to a report about Group Health patients published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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  Digital mammograms have raised costs with only small health benefits

  The trend toward digital mammograms was given a mixed report card in the study Benefits, Harms, and Costs for Breast Cancer Screening After U.S. Implementation of Digital Mammography e-published on May 28 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.