{"id":219788,"date":"2024-10-07T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=219788"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:13:55","slug":"uconn-health-minute-breast-cancer-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/10\/uconn-health-minute-breast-cancer-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Health Minute: Breast Cancer Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having regular mammograms can lower the risk of dying from breast cancer and with more younger women being diagnosed, it&#8217;s important to pay attention to the new screening guidelines. Dr. Alex Merkulov, section chief of women\u2019s imaging at UConn Health, discusses the guidelines and how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way mammograms are reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>To schedule your mammogram, call UConn Health Imaging at 860-679-2800.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"UConn Health Minute: Breast Cancer Screening\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wRUyRIZT0UM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having regular mammograms can lower the risk of dying from breast cancer and with more younger women being diagnosed, it&#8217;s important to pay attention to the new screening guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":219840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,179,2295],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1867],"class_list":["post-219788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancer","category-uconn-health","category-womens-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 16:46:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220039,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219788\/revisions\/220039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/219840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219788"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=219788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=219788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}