mammography
IPA: mʌmˈɑgrʌfi
noun
- (medicine) X-ray examination of the breasts for diagnosing and locating abnormalities, especially tumours.
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Examples of "mammography" in Sentences
- Critique of screening mammography.
- There's a broad consensus for mammography.
- Nice additions to the mammography article.
- MBI overcomes a shortcoming of X ray based mammography.
- Here are some typical groups from the mammography vocabulary A.
- However this is not happening with current mammography screening.
- Screening mammography is used for the early detection of breast cancer.
- Many national organizations recommend regular mammography, nevertheless.
- In many respects, they were trying to say that mammography is imperfect.
- As a result, women in their forties have access to mammography screening.
- Also, not surprisingly, routine premenopausal mammography is practiced by no nation other than the U.S.
- As a result, mammography is only leading physicians to diagnose an ever-larger number of harmless tumors.
- The restricted definition is the probability of a positive biopsy as a direct result of mammography in women without cancer.
- LUDDEN: Richard Knox, I was interested to read that mammography is not as effective as screening methods for some other kinds of cancer.
- In the U.S., where some 45,000 women die each year of breast cancer, we'd save approximately 4500 lives per year if the added value of mammography is only 10 percent.
- You should talk to your doctor and make an informed decision about whether a mammography is right for you based on your family history, general health, and personal values.
- As an oncologist, I find this highly-plausible; the purpose of mammography is to identify tumors in early stage and spare women morbidity and mortality associated from advanced disease.
- Although mammography is able to spot tumors as small as an eighth of an inch, which contain eight million cells, the average size at diagnosis with mammography is about 600 million cells.
- If the benefit of screening mammography is higher -- say in the range of 45 percent, as was supported by a 2007 paper, also published in the NEJM -- then the value would exceed 20,000 women's lives per year.