Question from a Reader: Is there a less painful breast examination that could be done instead of a mammogram?
November 8, 2009 by Dr. Paul Hartlaub
Filed under Reader Questions, Screening Recommendations
Bottom Line: Although there are more comfortable ways to screen for breast cancer, none have been proven to be as good of a screening test as mammograms when used by themselves.
As a practicing family physician, I have often heard from women that mammography, in which the breasts are compressed in order to x-ray, is uncomfortable. [...]
