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Tribune editorial: Utah must do a better job of offering adequate breast cancer screening

The rate of Utah women receiving mammograms is not what it used to be and not what it ought to be.

(Torin Halsey | Times Record News | The Associated Press) This July 31, 2012, photo shows a mammogram, a test to detect cancer. A new study suggests that adding MRIs to mammograms to screen women with very dense breasts may find more cancers but also gives a lot of false alarms.