Mammography is a photo shoot with a special X-rays to the breast. With this tool, very small tumors that can not be palpated by the physician can detected. these tools, many lives could be saved because breast cancer can be detected at a stage is still curable. This tool does not give accurate results. Sometimes a mammogram failed to detect tumors or tumors sometimes show there but not there. It's best combined mammography examination and breast physical examination.
Experts debate what age women should begin undergoing regular mammography. Breasts of young women are usually too dense so difficult to penetrate the X-ray. Fortunately, young women are rarely affected by breast cancer. Any woman at risk for cancer, the decision whether to perform mammography and physicians have in your hand.
