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Breast Cancer
  The Latest in Screening Imaging

Last updated October 17, 2011


 

While standard mammography remains the primary breast cancer screening method regardless of a woman's risk status, many medical centers now use newer technologies to supplement mammography for screening women at high risk of breast cancer. Women at high risk include those with a genetic predisposition to breast cancer based on a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation or a confirmed family medical history, as well as women with dense breast tissue.


Emerging Methods

3-D mammography

somo-v Automated Breast Ultrasound

Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI)

Positron Emission Mammography

Breast MRI

Other Methods

Standard mammography (2-D)

Breast thermography

 

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