3D Mammography Offers New View of Breast Cancer Screening

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, based in Park Ridge, Ill., became the first hospital in the Midwest to offer its patients 3D mammography, according to a Park Ridge Trib Local report.

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The technology, which is also known as digital breast tomosynthesis, could give physicians improved breast cancer screening and detection, offering three-dimensional images of thin layers of breast tissue.

DBT also aims to eliminate discrepancies between harmless irregularities and actual cancerous tumors.  

Read the Park Ridge Trib Local report on 3D mammography.

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