As a standard diagnostic tool, mammography has been always
used to diagnose breast cancer in women. As mammography results were based on
suspicious findings, it was found that only 30% of lesions turn into
malignancies during the progression of disease. Since younger women carry
breast tissue which is dense in nature, quite often it was the major obstacle
in the standard mammography procedure.
Hence, the expert team of physicians at the cancer center Seattle has developed a
technique which is potential and indeed more reliable in detecting the breast
cancer lesions. This is the new ultrasound procedure and aids in better and
timely diagnosis.
What are the advantages of new ultrasound technique?
All the breast cancer patients undergo a traumatic
experience while the diagnostic tests are being conducted. There could be a
need of biopsies which may later turn out to be the unnecessary ones. This can
be very well avoided using the new ultrasound which is used at the cancer center Seattle as a trusted,
safe and equally economical diagnostic tool.
Apart from this, the physician may ignore extremely small
lesions during hand examination. These small lesions are detected by new
ultrasound. Moreover, differentiating between fluid filled cysts and solid
nodules makes the use of ultrasound more important. Since the new ultrasound determines the
adequate size, shape and margins or edges of the lesion, it gives evidence to
the benign or malignant nature of the lesion.