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There is no other method in common use that offers the benefits of mammography. Well then, this study has saved and will save many lives.
Recommendations: low risk patients
American College of Obstetricians gynecologists: ACOG, October 2015
- Mammography beginning at age 40 and annual studies hereinafter
- In recurring arguments with the Mastologists and oncologists in my institutions we always came to the conclusion that should not be initiated the mammography before age 40 in low-risk women.
Recommendation American Cancer Society: ACS, October 2015
- Home of mammography at age 45 and annual studies up to 55 years, time in which the patient can choose to continue with the annual studies or spend to make them every 2 years thereafter.
- The final decision will depend on the agreement between the doctor and his patient, based on individual risk factors.
I invite you to review the opinion of a specialist on Mastology, Dr. Fernando Godayol, then:
All sexually active women know that they must be done a Pap smear every year, go to your Gynecologist to check them and say everything is fine, less enacted is to go to the mastologo or a gynecologist with expertise on Mastology, carried out a mammogram or a mammary ultrasonography annually.
Mammogram complications are minimal, irradiation is decreasing with the modern equipment and has decreased further with digital mammography, compression of the breast which was very annoying has decreased with the pneumatic compression controlled, that It makes mammography discomfort more tolerable, does not produce lesions in the breast prostheses if mammography is carried out by trained personnel, there are maneuvers to exclude the prosthesis of the compression and thus be able to make the x-ray of the breast and not of the prosthesis.
To sum up, the woman you should understand that we can do something to reduce the chances of a cancer, for the cervix annual cytology, for breast cancer, annual mammography is currently the best way.
Dr. Fernando Godayol Disario
Centro Medico de Caracas.
Consequences
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- Tumor mamario detrás del pezón
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- Mamografía
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- Mastectomía radical
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- Vaciamiento de los ganglios axilares
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- Radioterapia post-operatoria
When you felt a malignant breast nodule already relatively advanced stage of cancer and its treatment is extensive.
Bet to cure in Breast Cancer: get your mammogram every year starting at age 40 (the age of onset depends on the circumstances of each patient).
Images
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- Mamógrafo digital
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- Toma de la imágen. La paciente no manifiesta dolor
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- Mamografía normal en proyección lateral
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- Mamografía normal en proyeccion superior (craneo caudal)
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- Cáncer de mama con microcalcificaciones (puntitos blancos).
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- Cáncer de mama con la característica radiológica típica de estrella en expansión
The test is 90% effective and has a rate of false positive (suggests problems when there) 9%
Breast ultrasound is indicated as an element of support, supplemental, for mammography, and is the method of breast evaluation of choice in women under 35-40 years of low/high risk. Use in well trained specialists can increase the rate of detection of cancers and even diagnose some that were not detected by mammography.
Breast Ultrasound: benign cyst
Breast MRI
- An adjunct to mammography and breast ultrasound
- Expensive
Preparatory exercises for mammography
Mammography scary to many women, but do not worry, doing the following exercises for a few minutes a day, the week prior to the test, you will be fully prepared for it. They are easy and you can do them at home:
First period: opens the refrigerator and placed a chest in the door frame, close it on and tighten with force. Supporting your body over the door you will get more press. It holds that position.
Second exercise: go to your garage at 3 o'clock in the morning, which is when the temperature of the concrete floor is perfect. Undress and lie down comfortably on the floor with a left chest fall under the rear wheel of your car. Ask a friend or relative that slowly move the car back up to your chest is completely crushed under the wheel. It holds therefore without breathing, 10-seconds. Repeat this exercise every day.
Third exercise: put two metal bookends in the freezer overnight. Undress to the waist. Invited to a corpulent and unknown man entered the room and tell him that tighten you with all their strength the breast between two bookends. Later, concerta with him an appointment to do so within a year.
NOW YOU'RE READY! … and when you show the results of mammography to your gynaecologist, ask that in reciprocity do is a PENEGRAFIA.
This has to have written a moron, the bad thing is that there are those who believe him.
I wanted to leave this text as is as it was, its origin is anonymous and is circulating on the internet. I have no other explanation for this mail unless the author is owner of a laboratory of agents for chemotherapy or radiotherapy, a funeral home or a beautiful and expensive marble tombstones factory…
The description of the process of mammography made up, although signed by some of the women who have practiced is nothing more than an inconvenient and dangerous exaggeration that can be the stimulus that would prevent that many women practice it is way to routine: the process does not hurt so much and is so cumbersome as it has spread among women; only those who have been saved (that they have been cured of breast cancer) by the effect of a mammogram can make them change their minds. Even though the procedure includes a small dose of discomfort and "Stomp" breast, I and any physician associated with breast cancer, can give faith without fear to be wrong that the treatment of advanced cancer is infinitely more painful, complex and costly than a simple mammogram in time… and without a guarantee of cure.
The secret of mammography is that it is the only universally available method that can detect premalignant and malignant early that they would cure the patient with little local, personal, family and social trauma.
Do yourself a favor to you and your family
Ignore this type of information, written by morons!
- Not of credit to her friends when they speak badly of mammography.
- Even though it bothers, practised their mammograms annually from age 40.
- Breast MRI is experimental, lack experience in this method and so far has limited indications.
- Breast cancer is very common and increases as the woman ages: the risk of having breast cancer at age 40 is about 1% and goes up to 8-10% around the 90 years age. If there is family history (mother, daughter, sister) risk can rise up to 50%. In 2008 there were 1.38 million new cases of breast cancer with 458,400 deaths in the world.
- Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death among the female population, it can be extremely aggressive and mammography is the only one capable of detecting it in time. Annual mammography reduced mortality from breast cancer by 63% in women aged 40-69 years. The Digital mammography improves detection of cancer among 15-27% especially in women younger than 50 years and with dense breasts.
- (Gel or saline) mammary prostheses are not damaged by a mammogram. In some cases prostheses may slightly decrease the sensitivity of mammography, but not make it lose its value as an excellent method of breast cancer screening.
The procedure to get a mammogram lasts at most 10 minutes a year while breast cancer can even snatch life.
GROW YOUR MAMMOGRAPHY ANNUAL FROM THEM 40 YEARS (OR BEFORE IF HAS INDICATION): THE CANCER OF BREAST AND THEIR TREATMENT HURT MUCH MORE THAN THE MAMMOGRAPHY
- You must practice as indicated and there is no contraindication. Prostheses do not burst by the procedure
- The diagnostic sensitivity is altered in the presence of prosthesis requiring maneuvers that exposed the breast better. It must be complemented with ultrasound.
