Breast Cancer (Diagnostics)

Nuclear Medicine Aids Cancer Diagnosis by Scintimammography

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 17th, 1996

Nuclear medicine can help diagnose two of the greatest health risks to women, breast cancer and heart disease, experts in the field said.

"Nuclear medicine offers painless, safe, accurate and cost effective prognostic, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches," said Naomi Alazraki, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia. Nuclear medicine uses very small amounts of radioactive substances, "no more than perhaps one to three or four times the radiation you get from living on Earth in Denver for one year," said Alazraki.

About 7,000 nuclear medicine and healthcare professionals attended the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, held...

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