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Cancer

Seeing the Unseen: Ultrasound's New Role in the Fight Against Breast Cancer

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 28, 2016
Patti Beyer is a positive person by nature. But the 64-year-old retired educator was concerned after she requested, and received, a breast ultrasound-screening exam. After years of normal mammograms her doctor said she needed to follow up with a needle biopsy. Something was wrong.
She got the dreaded news a few days later while waiting for her luggage in the Washington D.C. airport: it was invasive breast cancer.
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How a breast cancer screening saved my life

October 17, 2016
A few months shy of her 25th birthday, Sydneysider Yvette Luciano was offered her dream job at Sony Music and was on track to fulfil her vision of starting her own music touring and management company. To top things off, that same year she met the love of her life.
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Breast Cancer

This Nuclear Physicist Is Using Her Skills and Passion to Build a Better Mammography Machine

December 03, 2015
In the 1960s, French radiologist Charles Gros working at University of Strasbourg, asked the imaging machine maker Compagnie Générale de Radiologie (CGR) to find a way to build a dedicated device for X-ray breast imaging that would provide better images than conventional equipment and was also more comfortable for women.
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An Education in Pink: Breast Density & Cancer Awareness

July 31, 2015
Did you know that breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Malaysian women? And the density of your breast plays a role in identifying cancer tumors? Yet, there is little awareness on breast tissue density and its implications on breast cancer. Breast density potentially increases a woman’s risk for breast cancer as it poses more difficulties in identifying the existence of cancer on a mammogram.
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When A Mammogram Isn’t Enough: Doctors Talk About the Future of Breast Cancer Screening

December 03, 2014

In 1965, French radiologist Charles Gros built the first X-ray machine dedicated to screening breasts and effectively launched mammography as a viable breast cancer test. The machine, which was built by Thomson CGR, used a special X-ray tube developed by his colleague Emile Gabbay. It was made from molybdenum and emitted low-energy radiation that produced uniform images and contrast that allowed doctors to see breast tissue in greater detail.

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The power of an image: Best practices for examining dense breasts

November 07, 2014
Throughout October, the annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month, plenty of excellent information was shared far and wide, with pink ribbons, pink-iced cupcakes and pink pens among the pastel products pressed into service to raise funds for breast-cancer charities, and helping to remind women of the importance of self-checks and mammograms in early detection. But for all that valuable awareness, how assured are Australian women about knowing breast-cancer symptoms and risk factors, and how to approach them?
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