Keweenaw Memorial Medical Centre Embrace Digital Mammography Screening
Keweenaw Memorial Medical Center recently upgraded their mammography screening from film to digital. Radiologists are now able to detect breast cancer better than they could before. With digital mammography imaging, the darkroom is eliminated and the breast images are captured and read on a computer, KMMC Diagnostic Imaging Director Gordon Rintala said. The radiologist can manipulate the computer image with brightness, contrast and magnification, which allows for earlier and improved detection of breast cancers, he said. “It’s the biggest breakthrough in mammography,” Rintala said. The radiologist just found his first cancer that he wouldn’t have found with film. “That’s what it’s all about,” he said. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women between the ages of 15 and 54, and the second cause of cancer deaths in women 55 to 74, according to a Fuji-film Medical Systems document. Early detection through mammography is the most promising approach for reducing the toll ...