| Every woman out there over the age of 40 | | | | Both can be displayed used either a pacs web |
| should take time from their busy schedules to call | | | | viewer or PACS workstations. A mammography |
| about a mammogram. It is that important. This | | | | viewer should be part of every yearly physical |
| doesn't mean you should also skip performing | | | | for women. These exams are important not only |
| self-examinations, too. If you find a lump or mass, | | | | because they screen for obvious cases breast |
| never wait for your yearly test and get one right | | | | cancer but also ones that cannot be detected |
| away under a mammography workstation. | | | | with a mammogram. Every woman should begin |
| A recent study has shown only around 10% of | | | | self examinations at the age of twenty and once |
| women who have found a mass will need a | | | | a month so that if there are any changes in your |
| biopsy done, and of those 10%, only a fifth will | | | | breast tissue, it will be easier to tell what is normal |
| actually be cancer. This positive news means only | | | | and what is not. Spotting an abnormality on a |
| one or two mammograms from PACS | | | | mammography workstation or PACS web viewer |
| workstations out of every thousand lead to a | | | | does not necessarily mean you have cancer. Your |
| correct and often life-saving cancer diagnosis. It is | | | | doctor will conduct further tests if an abnormality |
| better to have caught it in its early stages with a | | | | is found on any PACS workstations. A biopsy of |
| mammography viewer for the best long term | | | | the abnormality is also done to confirm if the cells |
| treatment options. | | | | are cancerous. |
| A mammography workstation uses | | | | A mammography workstation is easily a woman's |
| mammography, a specially designed x-ray image | | | | best weapon against deadly breast cancer. The |
| which displays any changes and growths within | | | | mammography viewer shows health professionals |
| the breast. Your breast is compressed in the | | | | of any changes, both big and small, in the breast |
| x-ray machine and pacs viewer images are taken | | | | tissue at early stages when it is much more |
| of at least two different angles in order to get | | | | treatable. Lumps can be spotted before they are |
| the best possible view. There two different types | | | | even able to be felt in a manual breast exam. An |
| of a mammography viewer. These would be the | | | | annual breast mammogram increases the rate of |
| screening mammograms and the diagnostic | | | | breast cancer survival. If you are over 40 and |
| mammograms. Screening mammograms are | | | | haven't had a mammogram yet, it is strongly |
| from side to side and top to bottom while | | | | recommend that you schedule one right away. |
| diagnostic mammograms centralize the images on | | | | Make this one date you do every year. |
| a specific area. | | | | |