The standart approach for detecting breast cancer in women is to have regular mammograms (X-ray examinations) as early as possible before they reach 40. Well, evidence reported at a recent international cancer conference now suggest that early screening may not be crucial after all.
Based on a ten-year study in six countries involving some 500,000 women, the findings show that only women over 50 or older benefitted from regular mammograms in that they had a lower chance of death than their contemporaries who didn't go far regular mammograms. So it would seem that costly routine mammography could be avoided until a women reaches 50 years og age. The potential savings would surely be welcome judging from the $902 million which American women have spent on mammograms alone.
Another piece of good news is a computerised scanner capable of picking up abnormalities that may have escaped the visual X-ray examination of the breast. This will be particularly useful in detecting budding abnormal growths in younger women. The super cosmos scanner makes use of digital technology and was actually designed to chart stars in outer space. Now it is used to save thousands of women from dying of breast cancer.
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