Combining digital mammography with a 3-D technique may improve doctors’ ability to identify breast cancers and decrease the need for additional testing. ‘We’re detecting more invasive cancers while calling fewer women back for additional imaging,’ said Dr Sarah Friedewald, the study’s lead author in a [s]Reuters Health[/s] report. ‘It’s a more accurate picture of what’s going on with the breast,’ Friedewald said. The report says digital mammography has been criticised because it does not always spot cancerous tumours and sometimes identifies non-cancerous masses in the breast. For those who question whether mammography is useful, the study may not be enough to change opinions. Dr Etta Pisano from the [b]Medical University of South Carolina[/b] said she’d like to see more information on an even newer tomosynthesis system that involves less radiation.
[link url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/24/us-mammography-tomosynthesis-idUSKBN0EZ2MH20140624]Full Reuters Health report[/link]
[link url=http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1883018]Journal of the American Medical Association abstract[/link]