How to Use mammography in a Sentence

mammography

noun
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  • In the meantime, don't wait to go for that mammography.
    — Tracey Porpora, cleveland.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • And the same is true for the other side of the spectrum—starting mammography at 50 may be too early for some.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 4 May 2023
  • Learn more about mammography and the importance of breast health screening at ProvImaging.com.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Last year the divorced mammography technologist bought a house in Lake Tapps with a view.
    — George Erb, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Some treatments are deemed necessary based on your age or gender, such as a colonoscopy or mammography.
    — Dallas Ducar, STAT, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Does anyone have anyone on an exchange plan that does mammography or colonoscopy?
    — Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times, 14 May 2016
  • These new screenings, which could be used alongside mammography, are still a ways off from being used in Utahn’s doctors’ offices.
    — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
  • At the health fair, substitute teacher Crystal Clyburn, 51, got a mammogram on the mammography bus and had her blood pressure checked.
    — Stephanie Colombini, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • About Mammograms Larsen admits there’s been lots of confusion about mammography over the past two years.
    — Elizabeth Varnell, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The Namida test can be performed at home, which is important since half of all women do not attend their mammography screening.
    — Lisa Falco, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Among the dead from the Hollywood center was Gail Nova, 71, who had worked as an X-ray and mammography technician before her own health declined.
    — Neil Reisner, Sheri Fink and Vivian Yee, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Sign-up for services aside from mobile mammography is available at https://rb.gy/fqnkr.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
  • The currently most common way of screening for breast cancer is mammography and was performed for the first time already in 1913 by the German surgeon Albert Solomon.
    — Lisa Falco, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • About 20% of the cancers found by mammography are now believed to be of a type that would never have progressed beyond the very small early stage that mammography can detect.
    — Richard Stevens, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2015
  • Or, that Summa is the only area hospital with 3-D mammography at all its locations.
    — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • In addition, some of the mammography systems require both 2-D and 3-D X-rays, which can expose women to twice as much radiation.
    — Michelle Andrews, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Belk ended its mobile mammography unit last year, for instance.
    — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Thompson has long said 3-D mammography could have caught her cancer earlier.
    — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Access ranges from advanced imaging like MRI and mammography but includes more basics like ultrasound and x-rays.
    — Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Improvements in mammography may make the test more effective at detecting cancer in dense breasts.
    — Leah Small, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The panelists added that 3D mammography is more sensitive at detecting cancer, but fewer Black women are referred to it.
    — Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Moore led design for the first automatic breast release mammography unit.
    — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
  • At the same time, the wider use of mammography led to earlier diagnosis, which also contributed to the higher incidence numbers.
    — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The actress explained that doctors discovered the cancer in April 2000 during a routine mammography.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2023
  • During those three decades, there has been some significant advances in mammography.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The nation outperformed in terms of rates of mammography screening and influenza vaccination for older adults as well as the share of adults who talked with a health care provider about nutrition, smoking and alcohol use.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN, 4 Aug. 2021
  • As part of breast cancer awareness month, Spring real estate businesses are also raising funds for The Rose, a nonprofit that helps women obtain a mammography.
    — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Once mammography was introduced, however, gaps in treatment emerged between Americans who could access the screening and those that couldn’t.
    — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • WiiHealth in Sunrise is a new imaging and interventional center for women where this type of mammography is offered.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Radiology practices don’t handle payment for AI mammography all in the same way.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024

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