By Elizabeth Fernandez, UCSF. Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer – the most diagnosed cancer for women and men – have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in [...]

By J.J. Smith. Lake Pointe Health Network is offering extended weekday and Saturday hours for mammogram appointments during October at each of their imaging locations in Rowlett, Rockwall and Forney as part of a national campaign by hospitals to encourage early detection of breast cancer. The national “Picture Yourself Healthy” campaign is being held this month in recognition of [...]