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New Breast Scanner Rivals Mammograms: works without flattening the breast

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=7421

here is part of the article

(HealthDay News) - A new imaging system has the promise of equaling or surpassing mammography in detecting breast cancer.

And it does it without squeezing the breast in a vice.

But the device is not thoroughly proven, and experts are urging caution in interpreting the findings.

"I'm enthusiastic. This sounds like something that's very helpful, but there have been a large number of technologies that each promise to take over mammography, but each time that proves not to be the case," said Dr. Joshua Kalowitz, chief of breast imaging at Maimonides Cancer Center in New York City.

The technology featured in this study, the Cone Beam Breast Computed Tomography (CBBCT) scanner, has primarily been tested only in healthy women and may not be able to pick up tiny abnormalities because of the resolution, Kalowitz added.

Preliminary results from a pilot study of the technique were to be presented Monday at the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting, in Chicago.