New Screening Catches More Breast Cancers
Posted on Wednesday, September 03 @ 21:31:46 CDT by Raulken |
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By Amanda Gardner WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- While tremendous progress in screening and treatment for breast cancer has been made in recent years, some 184000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States in 2008,...
 Last updated September 3, 2008 6:26 p.m. PT Study: New way to spot breast cancer shows promise By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP MEDICAL WRITER These undated images, provided by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, shows a standard mammogram, left, and molecular breast imaging (MBI) from a study performed on a 45-year-old patient in the clinic's screening of women with dense breasts. The mammogram was interpreted as being negative while the MBI image shows a cancerous growth indicated by the arrow. (AP Photo/The Mayo Clinic) A radioactive tracer that "lights up" cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported Wednesday. The experimental method - molecular breast imaging, or MBI - would not replace mammograms for women at average risk of the disease. But it might become an additional tool for higher risk women with a lot of dense tissue that makes tumors hard to spot on mammograms, and it could be done at less cost than an MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging. About one-fourth of women 40 and older have dense breasts. "MBI is a promising technology" that is already in advanced testing, said Carrie Hruska, a biomedical engineer at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., which has been working on it for six years. She gave results in a telephone news...
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