Compression of the breast during mammography can be painful but the discomfort is just for a short time.

Mammography involves radiation. Current evidence suggests that, at most, mammography could be the cause of cancer in one woman for every two million women screened.

Whereas cervical screening is designed to pick up cervical disease before it becomes malignant, breast cancer screening is designed to pick up the disease when it has already become active although hopefully early enough to provide curative treatment.


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