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  • Are Mammograms as Scary as They Sound? Doctors Weigh In

    5 days ago - By Pop Sugar

    Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer in women in the United States, and it's responsible for about 30 percent of all new female cancers each year, according to the American Cancer Society. With that, screening for this disease is important - and the gold standard is via mammogram.
    If you've never had a mammogram before, it's understandable to have questions about how the process works and whether mammograms hurt. But you may also have some really basic questions about what this lifesaving procedure involves and what it does, exactly.
    At a basic level, a mammogram is a procedure...
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