3D Mammography May be the Difference

Any form of cancer, breast cancer included, has the distinct and highly dangerous ability to hide. In other words treatment may well be beating out the cancer but it won’t necessarily eradicate all of it. It appears as if though mammography performed in 3D may be the solution to this particular issue. 

In a study of over 500,000 mammograms, a fraction done in 3D, it was discovered that 3d scanning may be able to spot more than a regular scan. While it’s unnerving to think that the cancer is so powerful it’s good to know that there are ways to figure out how much of it there really is and the dangers it presents. 

If you have any questions about diagnostic imaging procedures please feel free to contact us. We here at Clermont Imaging look forward to answering any questions you may have. 

Sources:

http://news.yahoo.com/3-d-mammogram-scans-may-more-breast-cancer-205041899.html

Potential Breast Cancer Treatments

Brest cancer is far from being cured so it’s definitely promising to hear that potential treatments beyond radiation are actually being sought out. According to medicalnewstoday.com “Researchers at the University of Michigan have described a new approach to discovering potential cancer treatments that requires a fraction of the time needed for more traditional methods.” This is incredibly promising when you think about how long there has been a strong push to eradicate breast cancer.

The main problem with new drugs is making sure that the healthy cells manage to stay healthy. The many challenges presented by this particular problem require research and as stated “Discovering new targets for cancer therapeutics is a long and tedious undertaking, and identifying and developing a potential drug to specifically hit that target without harming healthy cells is a daunting task.”

The work has paid off because as they stated “They discovered a particular antibody 4C3, that was able to almost completely stop the proliferation of the breast cancer cells. They then identified the molecule on the cancer cells that the antibody targets.” It’s not yet known how truly effective 4C3 will be but the hope is that it will be a big factor in the current battle against breast cancer.

If you have any questions about diagnostic imaging procedures, please feel free to give us a call. We at Clermont Imaging look forward to answer any questions you may have.