{"id":31523,"date":"2017-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rftcjapan.org\/uncategorized\/3-d-mammography-test-appears-to-improve-breast-cancer-detection-rate\/"},"modified":"2019-02-08T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:39:44","slug":"3-d-mammography-test-appears-to-improve-breast-cancer-detection-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rftcjapan.org\/en\/pickup-article\/3-d-mammography-test-appears-to-improve-breast-cancer-detection-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"3-D Mammography Test Appears to Improve Breast Cancer Detection Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Denise Grady | The New York Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rftcjapan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mammogram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16345\" src=\"https:\/\/rftcjapan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mammogram-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Mammogram\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"228\" data-total-count=\"228\">&#8220;Adding a newer test to digital mammograms can increase the detection rate for breast cancer and decrease nerve-racking false alarms, in which suspicious findings lead women to get extra scans that turn out normal, a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"The study\" href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=1883018\">study<\/a>\u00a0found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"409\" data-total-count=\"637\">Millions of women will get the newer test, tomosynthesis, this year. The procedure is nearly identical to a routine mammogram, except that in mammography the machine is stationary, while in tomosynthesis it moves around the breast. Sometimes called 3-D mammography, the test takes many X-rays at different angles to create a three-dimensional image of the breast. 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