High Tech Mammograms Improve Breast Cancer Screening

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A new news report about advances in breast cancer screening that will yield better results si god news for everyone. Please be sure the loved ones in your life are being screened regularly for breast cancer at least once a year.

High-Tech Mammograms Will Change Breast Cancer Care

New computer-driven technologies should make the yearly exam more accurate and easier on patients than ever before, experts say. High-tech computer-based digital mammography is already available at about 10 percent of diagnostic centers in the country and growing steadily at a rate of about 4 percent a month, said Priscilla F. Butler, senior director of the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Accreditation Programs. While filmless mammography doesn’t feel any different to women while they are being screened, doctors are discovering that there are benefits for particular patients. A study of more than 40,000 women published last fall found that compared with standard mammograms, computer-based digital “pictures” were more beneficial for more than half the women.

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