“One in every eight women will get breast cancer. The idea is screening to look for early disease,” said Winifred Leung, M.D., of Santa Barbara Women’s Imagining Center. Tomosynthesis, a 3D breast ...

Dr. Lisa Weinstock, Director of Women's Digital Imaging in Ridgewood, said she has added Hologic Low-Dose 3-D Mammography (Breast Tomosynthesis) with C-View 2-D Imaging to enhance breast cancer ...

Digital breast tomosynthesis (quasi three-dimensional [3D] mammography) is a relatively novel technique. It creates thin-slice reconstructions of the breast from low-dose digital mammographic images ...

A new study published in the journal Radiology has found that the advantages of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) over digital mammography (DM), including increased cancer detection and fewer false ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Screening with 3-D digital breast tomosynthesis appeared associated with increases in both specificity and ...

—Digital breast tomosynthesis, or 3D mammography, has been shown to improve recall and breast cancer detection rates in previous and recent studies and is becoming increasingly integrated into ...

Breast tomosynthesis in the diagnostic workup for one- or two-view focal asymmetry detected at screening mammography resulted in less use of ultrasound, fewer biopsies, and higher positive predictive ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis have very similar benefits and drawbacks. When deciding on a ...

Digital breast tomosynthesis can detect cancer at a higher rate than digital mammography, according to a study published Sept. 17 in Radiology. Researchers from New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of ...

Tomosynthesis provides 3-D images of breast Researchers hope method will reduce false alarms Insurance companies may not cover such tests Women are used to making complex choices about mammograms.

CHICAGO — The detection of breast cancer is better with digital breast tomosynthesis, which creates a 3-dimensional picture using x-rays, than with standard mammography, results from a 3-year study ...