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The Importance of a Mammogram in Breast Cancer Detection

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Every woman out there over the age of 40 should take time from their busy schedules to call about a mammogram. It is that important. This doesn’t mean you should also skip performing self-examinations, too. If you find a lump or mass, never wait for your yearly test and get one right away under a mammography workstation.

A recent study has shown only around 10% of women who have found a mass will need a biopsy done, and of those 10%, only a fifth will actually be cancer. This positive news means only one or two mammograms from PACS workstations out of every thousand lead to a correct and often life-saving cancer diagnosis. It is better to have caught it in its early stages with a mammography viewer for the best long term treatment options.

A mammography workstation uses mammography, a specially designed x-ray image which displays any changes and growths within the breast. Your breast is compressed in the x-ray machine and pacs viewer images are taken of at least two different angles in order to get the best possible view. There two different types of a mammography viewer. These would be the screening mammograms and the diagnostic mammograms. Screening mammograms are from side to side and top to bottom while diagnostic mammograms centralize the images on a specific area.

Both can be displayed used either a pacs web viewer or PACS workstations. A mammography viewer should be part of every yearly physical for women. These exams are important not only because they screen for obvious cases breast cancer but also ones that cannot be detected with a mammogram. Every woman should begin self examinations at the age of twenty and once a month so that if there are any changes in your breast tissue, it will be easier to tell what is normal and what is not. Spotting an abnormality on a mammography workstation or PACS web viewer does not necessarily mean you have cancer. Your doctor will conduct further tests if an abnormality is found on any PACS workstations. A biopsy of the abnormality is also done to confirm if the cells are cancerous.

A mammography workstation is easily a woman’s best weapon against deadly breast cancer. The mammography viewer shows health professionals of any changes, both big and small, in the breast tissue at early stages when it is much more treatable. Lumps can be spotted before they are even able to be felt in a manual breast exam. An annual breast mammogram increases the rate of breast cancer survival. If you are over 40 and haven’t had a mammogram yet, it is strongly recommend that you schedule one right away. Make this one date you do every year.

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Wayne Hemrick writes about the mammography workstation. PACS and the DICOM standard, patient information can be shared electronically and near-instantaneously by digital imaging users using a host of modality, computer hardware and imaging software vendors.

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So how should a self examination be carried out? A self examination can be carried visually, which involves standing in front of the mirror with your arms hanging by your side and looking at your breasts for visual signs of change. Are your breasts showing signs of puckering, dimpling, changing in size and texture or are your nipples inverted. Try the same examination again with your hands on your hips and then with your arms raised and palms pressed together. Next you should lie down with a pillow under your left shoulder. Put your left hand behind your head and feel your left breast with the pads of the middle finger on your right hand. You should start at the outer edge of the breast and then begin to work around your breast in small circles, getting closer to your nipple with each circle. After you’ve finished checking your breast, squeeze your nipple gently and look for discharge. This method should then be repeated for the other breast. It is important to make sure that you check the area up to your collarbone and out to the armpit as this is the region where your lymph nodes are located.

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