{"id":1723,"date":"2017-12-20T20:41:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.frontidamastou.gr\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T12:05:24","slug":"apikonisi-mastou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frontidamastou.gr\/en\/iatrika-themata\/apikonisi-mastou\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Preventive radiological breast screening<\/h2>\n<p>The periodic radiological examination of women without symptoms of breast cancer , practiced in various ways around the world, constitutes the breast screening programme. It is a much discussed topic within and outside medical circles due to popularity of the issue of breast cancer. Unfortunately, this has also led to the existence of misinformation about non-existent risks of screening radiological examinations.<\/p>\n<h2>Purpose and objectives of the breast cancer prevention programme<\/h2>\n<p>The aim of the prevention programme is to diagnose breast cancer at an earlier stage than without screening. Why? Of course because early breast cancer is completely curable!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-807 size-full\" title=\"Interesting questions about breast cancer - curable early breast cancer\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.frontidamastou.gr\/app\/uploads\/2016\/02\/woman-questions-wide-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Did you know that when breast cancer is diagnosed at less than one centimeter in size, the patient's survival is the same as the general population\" width=\"883\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The goals that the implementation of mammography in the prevention program has achieved are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We can find smaller lumps than if we did not use it<\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li>Multiple scientific studies show a clear reduction in mortality from the time of implementing breast screening<\/li>\n<li>With the mass implementation of breast screening, life expectancy of women as a whole increased<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Which breast X-ray examinations should I have<\/h2>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.frontidamastou.gr\/prolipsi-diagnosi\/psifiaki-mastografia-tomosynthesi\/\"><strong>Mammography<\/strong><\/a>: The cornerstone of breast cancer prevention and early diagnosis. An affordable test, with comparable results, easy and quick to perform.  In many health systems it is the only test prescribed as part of mass prevention. Today, digital mammography and the newer and more accurate method of digital tomosynthesis are widely used<\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.frontidamastou.gr\/prolipsi-diagnosi\/iperixos-mastou\/\"><strong>Breast Ultrasound<\/strong><\/a>: A fantastic diagnostic tool for the radiologist, but also to aid invasive breast procedures (see <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.frontidamastou. gr\/prolipsi-diagnosi\/biopsia-mastou\/\">Invasive Breast Ultrasound<\/a> as applied in the Breast Care Clinic, for guided breast biopsy or as an intraoperative breast ultrasound). In prevention it has a subsidiary position, as a complement to mammography. It is particularly valuable in women with very high breast gland density.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.frontidamastou.gr\/prolipsi-diagnosi\/magnitiki-mastografia\/\"><strong>Mammography or MRI of the Breast<\/strong><\/a>: Examination that gives very valuable and detailed information about the breasts.  Unfortunately, its high cost limits its application in the context of prevention only to young women at very high risk, when they are unable to have a mammogram<\/li>\n<p>.\n<\/ol>\n<figure id=\"attachment_748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-748\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-748 size-medium\" title=\"Ioannis Haveles Mastologist Patras advises on breast cancer prevention\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.frontidamastou.gr\/app\/uploads\/2016\/02\/\u0399\u03c9\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2-\u03a7\u03b1\u03b2\u03b5\u03bb\u03ad\u03c2-x-300x300. jpg\" alt=\"Ioannis Haveles Mastologist Patras advises on the prevention of breast cancer\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The duty of the mammologist is to identify and inform women at high risk who should have a more intensive preventive examination using more complex and personalized methods of prevention.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preventive radiological breast screening The periodic radiological examination of women without symptoms of breast cancer , practiced in various ways around the world, constitutes the breast screening programme. It is a much discussed topic within and outside medical circles due to popularity of the issue of breast cancer. 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