Screening for Breast Cancer

The different techniques, used today, has advanced over the years.
Let’s take a look at some advantages we have to detect early stage of breast cancer through Medical review.

Mammography with Computer Aided Detection:
Mammograms are a great way to catch any early detection of cancer. Mammography is a an x-ray film of the breasts that is read by a Radiologist that checks to see if there is any abnormal findings. The Computer Aided Detection is a process that is computer based and it analyzes the mammogram for any abnormal tissue and shows the Radiologist where the abnormal tisse is, if there is any located.

Digital Mammography
Digital Mammography is a tool used to record an image of an x-ray of the breasts. The images are shown on a monitor and the doctors are able to enhance or manipulate the image for detection, before they print the image out on film.

Ultrasound
Ultrasounds are a high-frequency sound wave that produces pictures called sonograms. These help the Doctors to distinguish if a lump or abnormal tissue is a tumor or a cyst. Ultrasounds are not only used as a diagnostic image, but also to help guide biopsy procedures of breast tissue, like fine needle aspirations. Ultrasounds are usually done after the result of an abnormal mammogram that might show micro calcifications or other abnormal tissue.

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imagining)
MRI’s is a procedure done that doesn’t use radiation. There is a magnet that is connected to a computer that then creates the images of what is inside the body. When a breast MRI is obtained there are a lot of images that are created from front to back, top to bottom and side to side. The patient gets on the scanning table and lie on their stomach. The breasts hang into a hollow in the table that has coils that detect any type of magnetic signal. Then the patient is moved into the tube like machine that has the magnet. This helps to improve any cancerous tumor visibility. A radiologist reads the results of MRI’s also
Fine Needle Aspirations
A fine needle aspiration distinguishes what type of tumor the patient has. There are solid tumors and liquid-filled tumors; which are cysts. How the procedure works is the doctor takes a fine needle and inserts it into the location of the tumor. The fluid in the tumor is then removed and sent to laboratory to see if the tumor has cancerous cells or not.

Surgical Biopsy
Surgical biopsies are usually done if the mass is a solid tumor. There are two different types of surgical biopsies, excisional, and incisional. Incisional biopsies are performed by removing only a small portion of the abnormal tissue to be examined by a pathologist. With excisional biopsies the whole tumor is removed with a small amount of tissue surrounding it, and then sent to a pathologist to examine.

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Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

I hope this article can help others dealing with such events.

From the young age of 10 years old, I was introduced to the disease called “Cancer”. This introduction was through my Father’s diagnosis, treatment and death from “Lung Cancer”.Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines As a child, seeing your father fight the disease and worst the treatments, had a very strong impact on me. He died at 52 when I was only 12 years old. The doctors claimed that the cancer was the result of his heavy smoking habit, so I vowed never to smoke cigarettes and that I would use my experience to help others quit. My sister was next with her own battle of bowel cancer at the very young age of 29, then followed by mother with breast and bladder cancer. As you can see there is a very strong history of cancer in my family.

Knowing I had this strong family history of cancer, there was always a thought in the back of my mind that I would have to fight this battle myself one day but like everyone else I thought it wouldn’t happen to me. I was always on the look out for typical symptoms, but nothing. I was in great condition and enjoying life with my own young family. I asked my family doctor on several occasions when I should get checked out more thoroughly especially for bowel cancer, but he told me that I was to young and I should wait until I am 40.

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After a couple years of asking for the check up, the doctor finally sent me to a General Physician for a complete top to toe check up. The Physician was excellent and I was put through every test under the sun. The tests came back and my health was excellent except for one test that found small traces of blood in my feces. He immediately referred me to a colorectal specialist and within two weeks I had my first colonoscopy. Still with no symptoms I had the procedure knowing that they may find something. After the procedure I was informed that they had found a 4 to 5 cm tumour and it needed to be removed immediately. I handled the diagnosis well as I was expecting them to find something. My wife on the other hand didn’t handle it well but she held it together for me.

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Uspstf Breast Cancer Screening 2002

Uspstf Breast Cancer Screening 2002

I was told I had Bowel cancer I have decided to write this article to let people know what happen and how I used my mind to fight the devastation of the disease to myself, my family and friends.Uspstf Breast Cancer Screening 2002 I hope this article can help others dealing with such events.

From the young age of 10 years old, I was introduced to the disease called “Cancer”. This introduction was through my Father’s diagnosis, treatment and death from “Lung Cancer”. As a child, seeing your father fight the disease and worst the treatments, had a very strong impact on me. He died at 52 when I was only 12 years old. The doctors claimed that the cancer was the result of his heavy smoking habit, so I vowed never to smoke cigarettes and that I would use my experience to help others quit. My sister was next with her own battle of bowel cancer at the very young age of 29, then followed by mother with breast and bladder cancer. As you can see there is a very strong history of cancer in my family.

Knowing I had this strong family history of cancer, there was always a thought in the back of my mind that I would have to fight this battle myself one day but like everyone else I thought it wouldn’t happen to me. I was always on the look out for typical symptoms, but nothing. I was in great condition and enjoying life with my own young family. I asked my family doctor on several occasions when I should get checked out more thoroughly especially for bowel cancer, but he told me that I was to young and I should wait until I am 40.

After a couple years of asking for the check up, the doctor finally sent me to a General Physician for a complete top to toe check up. The Physician was excellent and I was put through every test under the sun. The tests came back and my health was excellent except for one test that found small traces of blood in my feces. He immediately referred me to a colorectal specialist and within two weeks I had my first colonoscopy. Still with no symptoms I had the procedure knowing that they may find something. After the procedure I was informed that they had found a 4 to 5 cm tumour and it needed to be removed immediately. I handled the diagnosis well as I was expecting them to find something. My wife on the other hand didn’t handle it well but she held it together for me.

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