Boutique center offering state of the art 3D screening mammography. Pink Door Imaging center is managed by and shares office with Woman’s Clinic for Breast and Gynecological Imaging. PDI utilizes the Siemens (Mammomat with Prime technology) high definition, wide angle breast tomosynthesis system.
3D Mammography or Digital Breast Tomosynthesis is a technology that has gained widespread acceptance since being introduced in 2011. Texas and few other states have passed a law mandating coverage for DBT breast cancer screening at no cost to patients.
A new digital technology, breast tomosynthesis has shown to be an advance over digital mammography, with higher cancer detection rates and fewer patient recalls for additional testing. This is extremely important. The medical community has long sought ways to improve breast cancer screening accuracy. Better sensitivity will likely translate into more lives saved. Lower recall rates result in fewer patients who may experience short-term anxiety awaiting test results. This is important evidence that tomosynthesis will have a positive impact on patient care.....
Three large prospective clinical trials have shown a 24-34% increased cancer detection rate with use of 3D Mammography. The OTST trial (N= 12,000 women) has shown a 24% increased cancer detection rate. The STORM trial (N=7200 women) has shown a 34% increased detection with 3D mammography compared to 2D mammography. The MALMO Breast tomosynthesis trial (N=7500 women) showed a 29% increased cancer detection rate with 3D mammography.
...'Yet none of the currently available adjunct breast imaging technologies seems as promising, or as feasible to implement on a large scale, as digital breast Tomosynthesis (DBT), a pseudo–3-dimensional derivative technology of digital mammography (DM).In fact, this technology appears to be disseminating throughout the United States faster than the pace witnessed for DM in the preceding decade, with 50% of facilities in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium now offering DBT...
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: A Brave New World of Mammography Screening. JAMA Oncology editorial June 2016
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