Re: New camera to help cancer detection

[Guest guest]

Hmm, that is about 20 minutes from me.

Lynda

At 06:13 PM 6/24/2006, you wrote:

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>Publish Date: 6/24/2006

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>New camera to help cancer detection

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>Equipment is able to better identify suspicious masses

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>By Steele

>The Daily Reporter-Herald

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>A new breast-specific imaging camera available

>at McKee Medical Center can help detect breast

>cancer and other types of tumors and cut down on unnecessary biopsies.

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>The McKee Foundation raised the $225,000 to

>purchase the machine as an enhancement to the hospital’s Breast Center.

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>Cherlene Goodale, McKee’s director of imaging,

>said the images the machine produces are much

>like those of a mammogram, but the new equipment

>has the ability to identify whether a suspicious

>mass on the image is cancer or a non-cancerous fibrocystic mass.

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>Goodale said certain conditions can make a

>mammogram difficult to read. Dense breasts,

>breast implants, hormone replacement therapy and

>scar tissue from prior surgery all can affect

>the quality of a mammogram image.

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>Before the advent of the new technology, doctors

>who discovered a suspicious mass would either

>have to perform a biopsy or watch the area for a period of months for changes.

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>The new equipment offers a noninvasive way of

>identifying some suspicious masses, Goodale said.

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>The hospital is the first in Northern Colorado to have the new equipment.

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