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| Here is a fantastic article posted from We’ve | | | | High-quality mammography is the most effective |
| included the link to the full article below. Breast cancer | | | | technology presently available for breast cancer |
| is one of the leading causes of death for women; | | | | screening. Efforts to improve mammography focus |
| however, here's good news from our friends at | | | | on refining the technology and improving how it is |
| Slowly but surely, cancer researchers all over the | | | | administered and x-ray films are interpreted. NCI is |
| world are finding better tools and methods to battle | | | | funding research to reduce the already low radiation |
| the causes of cancer as well as the disease itself. | | | | dosage of mammography; enhance mammogram |
| With the newly improved mammography methods | | | | image quality; develop statistical techniques for |
| funded by the National Cancer Institute, categorizing | | | | computer-assisted interpretation of images; enable |
| and identifying the type of breast cancer in women | | | | long-distance, electronic image transmission |
| have never been this more specific. The NCI has | | | | technology (telemammography/teleradiology) for |
| been funding various researches and the high quality | | | | clinical consultations; and improve image-guided |
| mammography is definitely one of them. The | | | | techniques to assist with breast biopsies. (A breast |
| High-Quality Mammography can help doctors as well | | | | biopsy is the removal of cells or tissues to look at |
| as the patients find the roots of their breast cancer | | | | under a microscope to check for signs of disease). |
| faster and safer. | | | | NCI also supports research on technologies that do |
| The full link to the article is posted below. | | | | not use x-rays, such as magnetic resonance imaging |
| The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is funding | | | | (MRI), ultrasound, and breast-specific positron |
| numerous research projects to improve conventional | | | | emission tomography (PET) to detect breast cancer. |
| mammography (an x-ray technique to visualize the | | | | The following information describes the latest imaging |
| internal structure of the breast) and develop other | | | | techniques that are in use or being studied. |
| imaging technologies to detect, diagnose, and | | | | |