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Breast cancer can be detected by Ultrasound, mammography together

May 15, 2008

Toronto: Recent studies have discovered that mammography and ultrasound can have harmonizing effect in detecting breast cancer in elevated risk females. Canadian and American Scholars have discovered that each technique notices the breast cancer which other techniques can not detect. The researches verify that the detection rate of breast cancer in females is much more when both ultrasound as well as mammography is second hand.

In their researches on two thousand and six hundred high jeopardy females, the scholars diagnosed them with mammography, ultrasound and then with a mixture of mammography and ultrasound. When they evaluated the consequences, they found that with mammography the discovery rate was 78 %. With ultrasound, it was 80 %.

But with the combination of mammography and ultrasound, it crawled up to 91 %. The study also estimated that mammography alone detected 7.6 cancers per one thousand high danger women. But when it was combined with ultra-sound, 11.8 cancers were detected per one thousand high risk females. The scholars also found that in spite of its moderately superior cancer detection rate, ultra-sound also demonstrated fake positive rate of 8.1 %. For mammography, this rate was mere 4.4 %.

The study, available in the Journal of the American medical Association, also discovered that mammography was more effectual in cancer detection in females with fatty breast tissue than those with dense breast tissue. The study also depicted that ultra-sound singled out up cancers that were very minute and at very premature stages of progress. Breast cancer kills more than Five thousand females in Canada every year.

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