NEW 3-D MAMMOGRAPHY MORE ACCURATE

Thursday

NEW 3-D MAMMOGRAPHY MORE ACCURATE

Few women may be aware of this, but the usual mammograms we've been told to get turn out as many as 40% false negatives.

This is way too close to a 50/50 chance that if your mammogram results show no tumors it could be wrong. To me this makes the test next to useless. Don't give up on mammograms though, it seems now they have a way of making 3 dimensional mammograms which because they show the whole inside of the breast, make tumors more visible at an even earlier stage of development.

This is very, very, good news for catching more tumors earlier, which we all know is half the cancer battle.

Do keep in mind that even if your next mammogram is not 3-D you should still go and have it done. Some cancer is caught that way, and some is better than not checking at all.