Bringing life-like detail to a hospital near you: the 3-D mammogram, which doctors say is detecting breast cancer earlier and more accurately than traditional tests. Approved last year by the Food and ...

Mammograms may be one of the best tools doctors have to detect breast cancer – but the procedure still comes with many limitations. Not only do mammograms frequently produce false-positive results, ...

A patient getting a mammogram at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish would be unlikely to notice that the hospital now has a new a digital breast tomosynthesis machine, but health-care providers say ...

State-of-the-art equipment at Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital now provides patients with less stress and early detection. The hospital offers 3-D breast tomosynthesis which detects breast cancer ...

“Tomosynthesis in my view is an example of where the adoption of the technology got way out in front of the science,” said Dr. Marc Mora, Group Health’s chief medical officer. The concern is over the ...

New 3-D mammography screening technology could increase breast cancer detection rates and decrease instances of false-positives, according to a study released Tuesday. The Journal of the American ...

WABASHA — The Wabasha area women have been dubbed the Dream Team because they are leading the final push to finish the $430,000 dream the community has to bring the small town a more sophisticated ...

About 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer over her lifetime. Mammography is currently the only available screening tool proven to decrease the chance of dying from breast cancer. Other than a ...

For the first time, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommends that clinicians "consider" tomosynthesis as part of annual breast cancer screening. The context of the recommendation is ...

Mary Shallcross is positioned in the 3D digitial mamography machine to have breast tomosynthesis at the Women’s Imaging Center at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. Photo by Amy Beth Bennett.