When to Get Screened for Breast Cancer
Currently, tomography digital mammography (DBT) is equipped by breast examination units in the US to replace the 2D imaging method with many advantages.
General Hospital equipped with a DBT mammography system to overcome overlapping imaging, making it easier for doctors to identify the characteristics of the lesion, increase accuracy and shorten the diagnostic process.
The patient has less pain when squeezing the breast, reducing the harmful effects of X-rays.
Recently, I have had breast pain, palpation as if there is a tumor, at what point in the menstrual cycle should I be screened for breast cancer?
Breast cancer screening is the examination of the mammary glands before the onset of symptoms in order to prevent cancer.
Women should not wait until they have symptoms to go to the doctor or screening.
Because breast cancer progresses silently and shows almost no symptoms in the early stages.
Symptoms such as pain, itching, discharge, ulcers… can be detected on its own and then the cancer has progressed, invasively.
