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Understand How COVID-19 Shots Can Affect Routine Mammogram Screenings

Published on Fri Sep 10, 2021

Wait six weeks post-vaccine before scheduling these services. Does your ob-gyn practice perform mammograms in-house? A routine screening mammogram procedure can help with the early detection of breast cancer, but recently a wrench has been thrown into the diagnostic works, thanks to the addition of the COVID-19 vaccine. Earlier this year, University of Pennsylvania Medicine radiologists noticed “a rise in [...]
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