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Mammography

Mammography

Digital radiography (mammography) detects as many breast cancers as screen film mammography and more cancers than computed radiography.

Integrating 2D and 3D screening increases breast cancer detection and may lower reports of false positives.

Screening mammograms enhanced by CAD trigger more false alarms than non-CAD screenings and detect more early cancers that may never have needed treatment.

The ACR and SBI took issue with a recent study on the long-term mental anguish caused by false-positives from mammograms.

CAD may help highlight nodules the clinician may have otherwise missed, but its use is not without legal ramifications. What do you think? Take this survey.

Philips received FDA 510(k) clearance for MicroDose SI, a full-field digital mammography system that enables future Single-Shot Spectral Imaging applications.

Breast density can be accurately scored with images obtained through either digital mammography or film-screen mammography.

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