Breast test
Jan 17, 2021
3 minutes
HEALTH by Nicky Pellegrino
Mammography has been the gold standard for breast-cancer screening for decades now, and the technique hasn’t developed much in that time. Women aged 45-69 who participate in the free public programme, BreastScreen Aotearoa, will be familiar with the process of having their breasts compressed in two different positions so that X-ray images can be captured and any early signs of cancer hopefully detected.
In women aged over 50, traditional two-dimensional mammograms find 85% of
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