The Hospiten Group insists on the importance of breast cancer prevention through radiodiagnosis, a technique that is increasingly safe and reliable in the diagnosis of breast cancer in increasingly earlier phases.
On the occasion of World Breast Cancer Awareness Day, Maria Angeles Prytz, radiologist with the Diagnostic Imaging Service at Hospiten Rambla University Hospital states that mammography, of all the tests available, continues to give the best results in the search for the earliest signs of this type of tumor.
In addition, she points out, it is used as a single technique or combined with ultrasound in the case of denser or more complex breasts, in which observation of smaller lesions may be difficult.
On the other hand, when there are high personal or family risk factors in complex breasts or the findings of the mammography and ultrasound do not coincide, magnetic resonance imaging is used to obtain additional data that will allow us to resolve any doubts.
Hospiten Rambla University Hospital currently has mammography apparatus equipped for the tomosynthesis, which provides 3D images of the breast using low doses of X-rays to detect cancer early on, when it is most treatable. Added to this are the higher resolution ultrasound scanners, equipped with probes to improve both diagnostic reliability and precision in analysis.
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in the world, is the most common tumor in women and is the tumor that generates the highest number of clinical trials. In Spain, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer is generally 82.8% and exceeds 99% in patients diagnosed with disease exclusively in the breast.
Among the factors contributing to these encouraging results, in addition to the constant development of the most effective treatments in surgery, radiotherapy, pharmacotherapy and the increasingly complete training of research and health personnel, early detection of cancer occupies a place in its own right.
In short, the radiologist states that health professionals involved aim to implement all the means available to them, to respond to the need to overcome the fear of a positive diagnosis in patients, to continue working with the certainty that early detection facilitates therapeutic decisions and saves lives.