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2. Microcalcification - Wikipedia

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   Mammogram microcalcifications in ductal carcinoma in situ. Microcalcifications are tiny deposits of calcium salts that are too small to be felt but can be detected by imaging. [1] They can be scattered throughout the mammary gland, or occur in clusters. Microcalcifications can be an early sign of breast cancer. Based on morphology, it is ...

3. Mammography - Wikipedia

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   The goal of mammography is the early detection of breast cancer, typically through detection of characteristic masses, microcalcifications, asymmetries, and distortions. As with all X-rays, mammograms use doses of ionizing radiation to create images.

4. Breast imaging - Wikipedia

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   The goal of mammography is the early detection of breast cancer, typically through detection of characteristic masses and/or microcalcifications. In addition to diagnostic purposes, mammography has interventional utility in stereotactic biopsies to precisely locate and find the area of concern and guide the biopsy needle to this precise location.

5. Early breast cancer detection saves lives. Here are steps you ...

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   With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a Meritus physician is offering some advice on how to reduce the risk of getting the disease. Early breast cancer detection saves lives. Here are ...

6. The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers are ...

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   Ductal carcinoma in situ, a condition sometimes called non-invasive or stage-zero breast cancer, is a very early finding of disease in the cells that line the milk ducts of the breast.

7. Some Early Forms of Breast Cancer May Not Need ... - AOL

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   As encouraging as the data are, Dr. Larry Norton, medical director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, says the results still reveal an uncomfortably ...