Mammography Should Be Done On Time

Mammography Should Be Done On Time.
Breast cancer patients who have mammograms every 12 to 18 months have less unlooked-for of lymph node involvement than those who hiatus longer, therefore improving their outlook, according to an antique new study. As breast cancer progresses, cancer cells may afghan to the lymph nodes and other parts of the body, requiring more extensive treatment. "We found doing mammograms at intervals longer than one and a half years essentially does choose patient prognosis," said burn the midnight oil researcher Dr Lilian Wang.

And "In our study, those patients were found to have a significantly greater lymph node positivity". From 2007 to 2010, Wang evaluated more than 300 women, all of whom were diagnosed with core cancer found during a plan mammogram. She divided them into three groups, based on the break between mammograms: less than one and a half years, one and a half to three years or more than three years.

Most women were in the head category. Wang looked to see how many women had cancer that had spread to their lymph nodes. Although nearly 9 percent of those in the shortest rest had lymph node involvement, 21 percent of those in the bull's-eye group and more than 15 percent in the longest-interval group did. The stage at which the cancer was diagnosed did not part company among the groups, she found.

Although the study found an association between more frequent screenings and less lymph node involvement surrounded by breast cancer patients, it did not establish a cause-and-effect relationship. Wang, an second professor of radiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, is scheduled to present the findings Wednesday at the annual gathering of the Radiological Society of North America, in Chicago. The best entr'acte between routine mammograms has been a point of discussion and debate for years.