There's advancing news as women. Not
just is it getting looser to arrest and treat breast cancer in it is earlier
degrees, but Modern technologies are causing the method of diagnosis the
disease more prosperous as the patient-and preciser also.
The National Cancer Institute commends
mammography screenings everybody to 2 years for women over 40 and each year for
women over 50. Additionally, women at risky of acquiring breast cancer (e.g.,
women with a hard category story of breast cancer or who test confident for the
BRCA breast cancer gene) are advanced to get annual mammography screenings
regular earlier-sometimes as young as 25-and should look up a physician.
Benefits and dangers
• early on detecting of low
breast cancers greatly amends a woman's happens for successful treatment. If
breast cancer is charmed and treated as it's calm held to the breast ducts, the
bring around grade is around 100 percent.
• Clinical analyses in the
U.S., Sweden and the Netherlands have suggested that demises from breast cancer
coulded by between 36 and 44 percent if screening mammography were executed per
annum on all women in their 40s.
Digital mammography
One of the most recent advances in
breast cancer screening is digital mammography. Digital mammography uses
essentially the same system as conventional mammography, but is equipped with a
digital receptor and a computer instead of a film cassette.
Digital mammography systems such as
Siemens Medical Solutions' Mammomat® NovationDR enable faster and more accurate
viewing of the dense tissue of the breast. Images are acquired digitally and
displayed immediately on the system monitor.
According to a recent study published
in the New England Journal of Medicine, digital mammography was significantly
better than conventional mammography at screening women in any of the following
categories:
- under age 50;
- any age with very dense or
extremely dense breasts; or
- pre- or perimenopausal
women of any age.
