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Breast Cancer, what you should know about Testing
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by:Fritz Frei |
The chance, that breast cancer is found
early, it is more likely to be treated successfully. Checking for
cancer in a person who does not have any symptoms is called screening.
Screening-Tests for breast cancer include, among others, clinical
breast exams and mammograms and there is a very important base in the
health-service for women.
The doctor or other health care professional can check the breasts and
underarms for lumps, during a clinical breast exam, which could be a
sign of breast cancer.
What is the “mammogram”?
“The mammogram is a special x-ray of the breast and that can often
detect cancers that there are too small for a woman or her doctor to
feel them. “
A lot of studies show's that mammography screening has reduced the
number of deaths from breast cancer. But also, some other studies have
not shown a clear benefit from mammography. So- you can't get a 100%
results!
But, to day there are no other ways to check out the breast cancer with
a good percentage. Concerning that, the Scientists are continuing to
examine the level of benefit that mammography can produce. The National
Cancer Institute recommends the following:
• you are a woman in your 40s, you should have mammography screening
every one to two years.
• you are a woman age 50 and older, you should have mammography
screening every one to two years.
• If you are a woman who is at higher than average risk for breast
cancer, you should seek expert medical advice about whether to begin
screening before age 40 and how often to have screening mammography.
The results are between 5 and 10 percent of mammogram not normal and
require more testing. The one good information - the most of these
follow-up tests confirm that no cancer was present.
What will be this "more testing"? The doctor will call it a “Biopsy”.
The procedure which is needed is to take a small amount of fluid or
tissue must remove from the breast to make a diagnosis. A doctor might
perform fine needle aspiration, a needle or core Biopsy, or a surgical
Biopsy.
This tissue goes to in the lab, this tissue will be checked on the
pathologist examines under the microscope and the results let him see
if any of the cells are cancerous.
In the last time, the Doctors are studying another new type of surgical
biopsy that removes less breast tissue. This new type is called an
image-guided needle breast biopsy, or stereotactic biopsy.
With this new system - If approved for general use, we can await, that
the result's are much more efficient and clearly, so that the doctors
would become an important surgical tool.
Please take note, that eighty percent of U.S. women who have a surgical
breast biopsy do not have cancer!
***But take also note, that women who have breast biopsies are at
HIGHER RISK of developing breast cancer than women who have never had a
breast biopsy.***
If you know that “- you will have perhaps a second opinion of the
doctor's information's.
The last technical review - With the magnetic resonance imaging, or
MRI, and ultrasound we have two other techniques which the researchers
think might detect breast cancer with greater accuracy and with lower
risk!
What's can help you?
Other new techniques used to find cancer include a new way of reading
mammograms called digital mammography.
Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, and ultrasound are two other
techniques which researchers think might detect breast cancer with
greater accuracy.
Fritz Frei, director of public relations
Health-Service-Online
Phone - +41 71 630 06 86
E-mail: support
http://www.cancer-info.info
About the author:
Fritz Frei make it easy to check out the important details about the
diagnoses and test's of the breast-cancer. To receive more
information's about all cancer -questions - Links and last research
NEW's - visit the http://www.cancer-info.info
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