MAMMOGRAPHY

Mammography: a "daily existence saving" assessment: what's going on here?

Mammography is, along with the pap test, the main preventive assessment for ladies. It is the most solid strategy for the early discovery of bosom disease, as it can distinguish changes in bosom tissue, even in millimeters

It is the most dependable technique for early recognition of bosom malignant growth, showing changes in bosom tissue down to millimeters in size, and permits the cancer to be identified in its beginning phases, whenever it is still little and the shot at recuperation is enormously expanded.

Standard mammography and mammography with tomosynthesis

Standard mammography is a radiological assessment that utilizes X-beams to make an extremely precise investigation of the bosom.

The bosom is put on a unique help and packed utilizing a plastic plate called a blower.

Fundamentally, two projections are made for each bosom.

The radiation portion is exceptionally low, particularly with the computerized procedure utilized today.

Mammography screening: at what age?

As of January 2019, the screening presented in numerous districts will incorporate the principal mammogram at 45 years old.

It proceeds until the age of 75, yearly from 45 to 50 and like clockwork from 50 to 75.

In any case, contingent upon each womans individual history, the expert might propose that the principal mammogram be performed before and that more continuous check-ups be planned.

For instance, on account of patients at high danger because of a first-degree family ancestry (for example having had a direct relation with bosom malignancy: mother, sister, little girl or father): just in these cases is the principal examination fitting from the age of 35.

When to have a mammogram: times of bosom distension

It is desirable over do the assessment in the principal half of the feminine cycle, as this is the period when the bosom is less tense and it is thusly more straightforward to play out the essential pressure.

In menopausal ladies, be that as it may, it is by and large conceivable to complete the assessment whenever.

Mammography during pregnancy and breastfeeding: should it be possible?

Clearly, pregnancy is one of the contraindications for the assessment, though it is entirely passable during breastfeeding.

By Joseph Chibuzor

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