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How does having regular mammograms benefit a patient who develops breast cancer?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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In fact, a study in 2003 found that women age 40 and older who had annual screening mammograms had better Breast cancer prognoses because their cancers were diagnosed at earlier stages than women who had mammograms less often.

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