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Nancy's Favorite WEB-SITE RESOURCES
The Get In Touch Foundation - encourages gals of all ages to "Get in Touch" with their bodies, information, and each other in the crusade against breast cancer.
Women with dense breast tissue are at increased risk for breast cancer. The somo.v™ Automated Breast Ultrasound System provides consistent, accurate 3D ultrasound images for visualization of targeted areas of concern in the breast tissue of these women. For information about somo.v™ Automated Breast Ultrasound System go to http://www.u-systems.com/Healthcare_Professionals/index.cfm/15.
View a recent TV segment about a cancer found in a patient with an otherwise "normal" mammograpm enrolled in somo-InSIGHT study. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqPIys_2EOk.
If you would like to learn how to be a patient for the somo·InSIGHT study, please email at inquiries@u-systems.com.
SonoCiné is an automated breast ultrasound system that has been cleared by FDA as an adjunctive examination to mammography. Studies show an additional SonoCiné ultrasound exam finds smaller cancers in many women and cancers that are invisible on a mammogram. Clinical studies suggest that more than 40% of women have dense breasts. Studies also suggest that as many as 1 in 300 dense breasted patients has a cancer which is not seen on the mammogram.
An automated whole-breast ultrasound system doubled the cancer detection rate when used with mammography to screen a population of women with dense breasts and/or an elevated breast cancer risk, according to a multicenter study published online this month in European Radiology. http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=sup&Sub=wom&Pag=dis&ItemId=87198
McKay-Dee Hosptial is detecting breast cancers earlier with new machine by SonoCiné http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8422428
www.womensimagingcentre-lafayette.com
Dr. Robert Lapidus is Medical Director and lead Radiologist at the Elaine M. Junca Women's Imaging Centre in Lafayette, Louisiana. He is a supporter of our accomplishment in CT to ensure that women are aware of their breast density, through the mammography report, for the early detection of breast cancer. To read an article by Dr. Lapidus about his practice and the use of automated ultrasound screening to find cancer at its earliest stage click here.
3D automated ultrasound gives physicians a much more realistic view of the whole breast and its physical structures and provides multiple views. Ultrasound has the unique ability to distinguish between fatty and dense breast tissue, as well as being non-ionizing, meaning there is no radiation. To download a brochure about the ACUSON S2000 Automated Breast Volume Scanner click here
