How to Use mammography in a Sentence

mammography

noun
  • Does anyone have anyone on an exchange plan that does mammography or colonoscopy?
    — Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times, 14 May 2016
  • Some treatments are deemed necessary based on your age or gender, such as a colonoscopy or mammography.
    — Dallas Ducar, STAT, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Belk ended its mobile mammography unit last year, for instance.
    — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Last year the divorced mammography technologist bought a house in Lake Tapps with a view.
    — George Erb, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
  • During those three decades, there has been some significant advances in mammography.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Both of their companies aim to better detect breast cancer in women with dense breasts, for whom mammography is often not enough.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Moore led design for the first automatic breast release mammography unit.
    — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Thompson has long said 3-D mammography could have caught her cancer earlier.
    — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Data shows that beginning screening at the age of 40 saves lives when compared to no screening with mammography.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Improvements in mammography may make the test more effective at detecting cancer in dense breasts.
    — Leah Small, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • About Mammograms Larsen admits there’s been lots of confusion about mammography over the past two years.
    — Elizabeth Varnell, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The women’s center inside the cancer hub will also have five mammography units, five ultrasound rooms and full imaging access.
    — Miami Herald, 30 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • One of the biggest reasons is the lack of access to mammography equipment, especially in rural areas where mammograms are not a part of routine care.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 8 Sep. 2024
  • There are several other concerns about using AI in mammography.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
  • For women with dense breasts, several options exist beyond standard mammography.
    — Dr. Megha Gupta, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • These clinics can provide a wide range of services, from disaster relief and mental health care to mammography and dental care, to primary and preventive care.
    — Michelle Nall, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • While mammography does save lives by catching cancer earlier, fewer than 70% of eligible women are up to date on their screenings, the study found.
    — Liz Neporent, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • And Fana cautions that mammography remains essential.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 21 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Inpatient and outpatient care remained closed on Monday, except for mammography.
    — Paul Burton, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The panelists added that 3D mammography is more sensitive at detecting cancer, but fewer Black women are referred to it.
    — Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Women in the second group receive a standard mammography letter, then are notified of their BAC readings six months later.
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 3 Jan. 2026
  • But at the time, mammography was a 40-year-old procedure that remained stubbornly analog—with doctors peering at sheets of X-ray film through jeweler’s loupes.
    — Erik German, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026

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