There’s
encouraging news for women. Not only is it becoming easier to catch and
treat breast cancer in its earliest stages, but new technologies are
making the process of diagnosing the disease more comfortable for the
patient-and more accurate as well.
The National Cancer Institute recommends mammography screenings every
one to two years for women over 40 and annually for women over 50. In
addition, women at high risk of developing breast cancer (for example,
women with a strong family history of breast cancer or who test positive
for the BRCA breast cancer gene) are encouraged to begin annual
mammography screenings even earlier-sometimes as young as 25-and should
consult a physician.
Benefits and risks
• Early detection of small breast cancers greatly improves a woman’s
chances for successful treatment. If breast cancer is caught and treated
while it is still confined to the breast ducts, the cure rate is close
to 100 percent.
• Clinical studies in the U.S., Sweden and the Netherlands have
suggested that deaths from breast cancer could be cut by between 36 and
44 percent if screening mammography were performed annually 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.
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