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You may recall a year ago when a firestorm erupted after the United States Preventive Services Task Force reviewed the world's mammography screening literature and issued a guideline recommending against screening mammograms in women in their 40s.
Now everybody rushed to criticize the Task Force, even though most of them weren't in anyway familiar with the mammography studies.
Two-thirds of women in their 40s have dense breast tissue, which is why mammography doesn't work as well in them.
Well, you need to read the details of your mammography report.
There have been surprisingly few innovations, until digital mammography was approved in 2000.
Digital mammography is still an X-ray of the breast, but the images can be stored and manipulated digitally, just like we can with a digital camera.
The U.S. has invested four billion dollars converting to digital mammography equipment, and what have we gained from that investment?
In a study funded by over 25 million taxpayer dollars, digital mammography was found to be no better over all than traditional mammography, and in fact, it was worse in older women.
But it was better in one group, and that was women under 50 who were pre-menopausal and had dense breasts, and in those women, digital mammography found twice as many cancers, but it still only found 60 percent.
So digital mammography has been a giant leap forward for manufacturers of digital mammography equipment, but it's been a very small step forward for womankind.
So here we were, a nuclear physicist, an internist, soon joined by Carrie Hruska, a biomedical engineer, and two radiologists, and we were trying to take on the entrenched world of mammography with a machine that was held together by duct tape.
The patient receives an injection of a radio tracer that's taken up by rapidly proliferating tumor cells, but not by normal cells, and this is the key difference from mammography.
You may be surprised to know that mammography is the only radiologic study that's regulated by federal law, and the law requires that the equivalent of a 40-pound car battery come down on your breast during this study.
Of the tumors that we found, mammography found only 25 percent of those tumors.
And if you don't know, please ask your doctor or read the details of your mammography report.
And fourth and most important, the mammography debate will rage on, but I do believe that all women 40 and older should have an annual mammogram.
But this mortality banner is the very sword which mammography's most ardent advocates use to deter innovation.
It is time for us to accept both the extraordinary successes of mammography and the limitations.
For women without dense breasts, mammography is the best choice.
Or third, imaging techniques, such as mammography for breast cancer.
For example, mammography has problems in women with dense breasts.
In Europe, one trial began in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, again using breast examinations and mammography for the screened group.
A more recent British trial, performed on women aged 39-41, used only mammography, as did the largest of all, the Swedish two-county trial.
Beyond showing no benefit from mammography screening, the Canadian trial highlighted one of the practice’s major disadvantages: over-diagnosis.
Many of the women who believe that their lives were saved by mammography screenings actually had so-called “IDLE” cancers (indolent lesions of epithelial origin), which would not have progressed before they died of other causes.
Large randomized trials from several decades ago showed that mammography added to regular physical examination improves early detection, reducing the risk of death.
Soon debates about the ideal technology – conventional mammography, digital mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, or a combination of technologies – are likely.
Screening with mammography is clearly superior to no screening and our first priority should be to assure that women are screened.