Potential Benefits and Risks of Mammograms

	What does it feel like to have a mammogram?
	Pressing the breast between two pieces of plastic for the mammogram may be uncomfortable. A few women say having a mammogram is painful, but most say there is only brief discomfort that last seconds.

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