Improving Methods for Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis

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