Breast Cancer Early Detection: How to detect breast cancer is not only mammography, but still there are some other ways. Let’s find out many ways to detect early breast health, here on Today News. The easiest thing to do is "aware" or breast self-examination. dr. Sutjipto, Sp.B (K) Onk., A specialist in surgical oncology from Siloam Hospital, advocated for young women, since the age of 20 years to "realize" a routine basis. This can be done each time after bathing and outside the menstrual period.
How, standing in front of the glass, right hand to check the left breast and vice versa. Do check with your palms touching rotate clockwise and vice versa as many times. Make sure there are no lumps in the breast. Breast Ultrasound As for the women who have turned 30 years old, perform breast ultrasound or breast ultrasound. The trick is similar to ultrasound womb. First, patients were asked to lie on the bed and then the breast is given gel. Then the medic will run around the transducer to the breast to get a picture of a tumor or cyst in the breast. Mammography is no longer painful. When entering the age of 40 years, Sutjipto recommend to combine the two ways of detection (ultrasound and "realize") with mammography. Mammography should be performed 3 years for patients aged 40-45 years. However, particularly for high risk, such as, fat, no children, and no history of cancer in the family, mammography can be done every 2 years.
As for when entering the age of 50 years, mammography can be done 2-3 years. Similarly, when women were aged over 60 years, mammography done about 1-2 years. No need to fear with mammography for mammography equipment is now computerized enough. This computerized system allows the emphasis adequately to obtain an accurate picture of the condition of the mammary gland.
How to do this such as chest X-ray mammography. First, patients were asked to release a variety of metal accessories and apparel and special clothing mammography use only.To position when performing mammography, can sit or stand depending on the equipment used. Then one of the breast is placed on a flat plate and at the top there is a kind of plastic breasts pressing down to flatten. This method is intended to show that breast tissue will X.
The photos of breast glands will be taken from various angles to obtain an optimum accuracy. In the mammography machine types Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM), which works digitally, X-ray images obtained can be manipulated on a computer screen so that improved accuracy results of X-ray