ACR Members Extol Benefits of Digital Mammography in Newspaper Article
The rising regard for digital mammography is evident in the increased number of newspaper articles appearing around the country, many of them featuring ACR members discussing the increased benefits of the imaging procedure. Two ACR members discussed these benefits and other aspects of digital mammography in an article in the October 9 edition of The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Mass.
“There are things that you can do to the image to perhaps get a clearer sense of what’s going on,” ACR member Claudia S. Reynders, MD, a radiologist with North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Mass., said in the article.
While the digital mammography images are more detailed, the article suggests that that more women may now face the anxiety and discomfort of biopsies for suspected cancers that turn out to be benign.
“Probably we do recommend more biopsies because we are seeing finer calcifications that I feel we might have been blind to before or potentially would have diagnosed at a later date,” noted ACR member Elizabeth J. Angelakis, MD, chief of breast imaging at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. You are probably more likely to biopsy more benign things as well, but women would rather have us biopsy it than watch it or follow it.”
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