Breast Cancer Screening Results from Canada, UK, and the USA Over the last 20 years or so, numerous studies from around the world (mostly in developing nations) have confirmed the dramatic decrease in breast cancer rates due to intensified breast cancer screening programs. The ‘recall rate‘ refers to the number of women undergoing breast cancer […]
Breast Cancer Risk Factors: That you CAN change
Breast Cancer Risk Factors that you CAN change. This post is about breast cancer risk factors (with lots of statistics and graphs) that you CAN change. So, if you are thinking of getting more healthy as you age, or you already know that you have an increased risk of breast cancer, then this one is for […]
This is rad
BIRADS BIRADS or ‘BI-RADS stands for Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System and was established by the American College of Radiology. BI-RADS is a scheme for putting the findings from mammogram screening (for breast cancer diagnosis) into a small number of well-defined categories. Although BIRADS started out for use with breast screening mammography, it was later […]
Does Obesity Really Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer?
Obesity and Breast Cancer The assertion that obesity causes or increases the risk of breast cancer is not an accurate one. There is little doubt that being overweight and obese has an adverse effect on overall health. Indeed, carrying extra weight places strain on the cardiovascular and metabolic systems. So, this extra strain may, in turn, […]
The Use of MRI in Breast Cancer Follow-Up
Follow-up screening with Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI Breast Cancer Multifocality and Multicentricity If specialists find a significant lesion on an initial mammogram, an MRI is often useful to check for multifocality (more than one mass on the same breast) and multicentricity (presense of a mass or lesion on the contralateral breast). MRI is routinely done as […]
Solid filters…? Hmm…
Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma- Solid Nodules -images Ductal carcinoma implies that there is cancer in the form of solid nodules located in the ducts of the breast. Mammary ductal carcinoma is the most common type of breast cancer in women, (up to 80% of all breast cancers) It comes in two forms: ductal carcinoma in situ […]
PET Scans in Breast Cancer Screening
Breast Cancer Screening using the PET Scan PET is an acronym which stands for “Positron Emission Tomography”. Interpreting a PET scan is part of a branch of internal or nuclear medicine. With PET imaging, a radiologist injects a small amount of radioactive dye into the patient and then measures the uptake of the dye as it passes […]
Follow-up for women after Initial Mammogram results
Post Mammogram Results: All about follow-ups and call-backs Call back and Follow-Ups Following mammogram results after an initial breast cancer screening, there are some situations in which the doctors may ask you to return for another mammogram. A call back should be fairly immediate. A Follow-up is in 6 months, 1 year or 2 years. […]
Screening results around the World
Breast Cancer Screening Results Breast cancer early-detection screening programs have been implemented in various countries over the last 20 to 30 years. The results tend to be fairly consistent in terms of actual breast cancers detected. Even though the percentage of women screened who actually present at screening with breast cancer is very low, when this […]
You’re a pro after all…
Histological descriptions of proliferative cellular conditions found in breast cancer screening If a woman goes for a breast cancer screening mammogram and has no clinically palpable lump, it is usually up to the mammogram to detect lesions that may be developing within the breast. But, a woman may have proliferative new cell growth (which is […]