Cancer Awareness

From a melanoma detection point of view, the FDA just recently approved a device called MELA-find, which helps dermatologists decide whether to biopsy a lesion suspicious for melanoma. It is a computer-vision system that uses a hand held scanner. This system exhibited a 98.4% biopsy sensitivity...

Read more: Advances In Malignant Melanoma

Remember the controversy that sparked from the 2009 USPSTF that recommended against screening women < 50 years old with mammograms? The new recommendation issued by the USPSTF in 2011 is to decrease the screening mammograms in women 50-74 years of age from yearly to every two years and no...

Read more: To Screen Or Not To Screen? That Is The Question: Part Two

Fibrocystic breast disease is a common benign (non-cancerous) condition seen in women of all ages and ethnicities. It is also known as lumpy or cystic breasts.  

Women with lumpy breasts have areas that fill with fluid, which is known as a cyst. It can seem that the lumps move around from month...

Read more: Fibrocystic Breast Disease