Is credited for average 1.8 percent yearly decline in death rate since 1989. Digital Mammography - captures images of the breast through the use of computer technology and electronic sensors rather than film. The technology yields pictures that can be manipulated to focus on a specific area and lighten, darken, or magnify the image. Spots smaller tumors than traditional mammography, when they are more treatable. Helps provide a more accurate interpretation of the results.
Physicians spend less time diagnosing breast cancer and more time treating it.
This imaging technique will also be able to show whether anti-cancer drugs have found, and destroyed their targets. Patient may undergo general anesthesia and spend a night in the hospital. It has undergone a decade of evaluation and found to be as accurate as open surgical biopsy of non-palpable lesions. A Comparison of Medicar Reimbursement and Results for Various Imaging-guided Breast Biopsy Techniques.