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Read BCSC blog post here: https://www.bcsc-research.org/bcsc-blog/immed-interp-screen-mamms-reduce-harms

Read UC Davis Press release: https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/half-of-all-women-experience-false-positive-mammograms-after-10-years-of-annual-screening-/2022/03#:~:text=The%20researchers%20estimated%20that%20over,a%20false%20positive%20biopsy%20recommendation.

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center will soon have new tools, including a “mammovan,” to improve breast health and early cancer detection in underserved women living in rural communities. Over a five-year period, Dr. Miglioretti and her team will develop a precision breast cancer screening research program focused on racially/ethnically diverse low-income women.

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Diana Miglioretti is co-senior author of a new study that shows women 7

Senior study author Diana Miglioretti, PhD, Professor and Division Chief of Biostatistics at the University of California, Davis was featured in a February, 24th 2021 article in Health Day titled "3D Mammograms Best at Spotting Tumors, But Many Black Women Missing Out".

Diana Miglioretti, dean’s professor and division chief of biostatistics in the department of Public Health Sciences, has won the prestigious Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association of Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS).

Diana Miglioretti has been selected as chief of the Division of Biostatistics in the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences.

(SACRAMENTO) —

Use of medical imaging during pregnancy increased significantly in the United States, a new study has found, with nearly a four-fold rise over the last two decades in the number of women undergoing computed tomography CT scans, which expose mothers and fetuses to radiation. Pregnant women are warned to minimize radiation exposure.

A new study finds a high rate of CT scan use in pregnant women in the U.S. and Canada, despite warnings.

*This article was orginally published by  Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI)

*This article originally was published by Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute

*this article first appeared on Medium.com May 19, 2017

*This article was originally published by The Sacramento Bee

*This article was originally published by Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute