Posted on 09 June 2009. Tags: breast cancer, breast imaging, digital mammogram, mammogram
If you’re a woman with dense breast tissue, or haven’t gone through menopause, or are under age 50, studies show that digital mammograms may be better than conventional film mammograms for detecting early breast cancer.
Both digital and conventional mammography use X-ray radiation to produce an image of the breast. The difference is, conventional mammography stores the image directly on film while digital mammography takes an electronic image of the breast and stores it directly in a computer. This allows the recorded data to be enhanced, magnified or manipulated for further evaluation.
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Posted on 01 October 2008. Tags: mammogram
If you’re a woman over 40 and you can’t remember the last time you had a mammogram, you may be overdue.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some time in their lives. But the good news is that mammograms – X-ray pictures of the breast – can detect breast cancer early, when it’s most treatable.
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