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Dr. Lance A. Talmage, M.D.

OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)

Dr. Lance Talmage is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Toledo, OH. Dr. Talmage specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Talmage can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Talmage can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
60 years Experience
Dr. Lance A. Talmage, M.D.
  • Toledo, OH
  • Univ of Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi
  • Accepting new patients

What's the earliest I can get a mammogram?

First get genetic counseling. Mammograms should start 10 years younger than the youngest relatives cancer. MRI is likely to be recommended by the radiologist. Mammograms in READ MORE
First get genetic counseling. Mammograms should start 10 years younger than the youngest relatives cancer. MRI is likely to be recommended by the radiologist. Mammograms in women under 50 and certainly under 40 are subject to false positives and therefore likely to cause more interventions and anxiety than the benefit of finding an early cancer. The genetic question is key and then the risk-benefit question is a matter of thorough informed consent.