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Diagnostic mammography helps to diagnose breast cancer

Topic: Women's IssuesPublished March 9, 2011

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Women suffer from the breast cancer. There are many symptoms which can cause the breast cancer. Proper diagnosis should be there. Doctors want proper diagnosis of the disease. They want to visit the images of the interior body organ which Diagnostic mammography can do. It can capture the photographs of the interior body parts of the women. It is a matter of proper diagnosis. Sometimes women can have the symptoms like the breast cancer. They should contact with their doctor.

There are different symptoms that women can have and they lead to the breast cancer. There are various symptoms such as a stiff portion in the breast of it can be there under the arm. There will be a thick area. Skin will be changed such as reddish, thick and dimpling. There are some changes in the nipple such as inversion, erosion, itching, weeping, retraction. There will be spontaneous discharge of the nipple. Breast size will be changed. Diagnostic mammography indicates for the possible malignancy for the women with the screening mammogram.

Women who have lumpectomy for the consecutive seven years are under the care of the radiation therapy. Breast cancer does not affect the men but there are some rare happenings of the male breast cancer. A lump is there on the male breast. It should be examined by the diagnostic mammography. There is conjunction between two images of the women breast. The first one is craniocaudal or CC. It is a vivid picture and the second one is mediolateral oblique or MLO

. It is a side to side view. A tiny compression paddle is there to do the other additional images. It can be done also by using the combination of the magnification technique. There is a compression paddle in the diagnostic mammography which is spot. It helps the compression to focus on a short area of the breast. It increases the separation of the tissue which are overlying in the area. It is evaluated in the breast.

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Lee Bond is a renowned radiology expert who has over 10 years of experience in the field, and another 10 as a regular surgeon.For more information, please visit Diagnostic mammography.

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