You will also be asked to have another mammogram several months following your surgery as a “baseline” for future mammograms. Additionally, breast exams and mammography may be easier to perform following Breast Reduction. Smaller lumps may be harder to detect in women with very small lesions ...
Women with breast implants can have mammograms. You should notify the Mammography technician that you have implants so that a special technique, the “Eklund’s Displacement Technique”, could be used for your mammogram. However, Breast implants can obscure approximately a 10% area of the outer ...
Dr. Samuel Epstein MD, one of the world’s top cancer experts estimates that up to 20% of all breast cancers diagnosed in the United States annually are actually linked to the cumulative radiation effects of mammograms! Another major problem with mammograms is the compression factor which serve...
I’ve always hadcystic breasts. When I would get my yearly mammograms I’d get my cysts aspirated as well. And there were LOTS of them, giant “whoppers,” as one breast specialist told me. When a surgeon performs a mastectomy he/she tries to take all the breast tissue. It’s hard ...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): MRI is used along with mammograms for screening women who have a high risk of developing breast cancer. It can also be used to examine suspicious areas found by a mammogram. Ultrasound: Breast ultrasound is used to target a specific area of concern found on...
Add in the things that happened last year and are already scheduled to happen again, but not on the same dates (like conferences, work retreats, mammograms, medical appointments, etc.). Use last year’s calendar to prompt you to make a list of everything you need to schedule or add to...
When I would get my yearly mammograms I’d get my cysts aspirated as well. And there were LOTS of them, giant “whoppers,” as one breast specialist told me. When a surgeon performs a mastectomy he/she tries to take all the breast tissue. It’s hard to know when to stop cutting, ...