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mammography, diagnostic procedure that uses low-dose X rays to detect abnormalities in the breasts. The early diagnosis of breast cancer breast cancer, cancer that originates in the breast. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women (following lung cancer ). Even allowing for improvements in detection (i.e. ..... Click the link for more information. made possible by the routine use of mammography for screening women increases a woman's treatment alternatives and improves her chances of surviving the cancer. Mammograms can detect tumors too small to be noticed on physical examination. Although opinions vary, it is generally recommended that women have a baseline study done in their thirties and have regular mammograms done at given intervals thereafter. mammography [ma′mäg·rə·fē] (medicine) Radiographic examination of the breast, performed with or without injection of the glandular ducts with a contrast medium. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A Harvard study of 72,000 women found that only a fraction of those who need mammograms get them every year, with just six percent of those screened in 1992 returning for another mammogram every year during the next decade. Although doctors hadn't originally read the mammograms as being abnormal, all the women in the study had been diagnosed with breast cancer at least 1 year after their mammograms were performed. Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital will soon acquire a new, computer-aided detection (CAD) system for mammography that provides a computerized second review of mammograms. |
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