Breast Cancer Screening

New technique lets doctors examine milk ducts for breast problems

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 3rd, 2002

A new technique enables doctors to directly examine the lining of milk ducts in the breast for early signs of cancer and other abnormalities, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The researchers used the technique, known as ductoscopy, to detect breast abnormalities in women with a condition called pathologic nipple discharge (PND).

"This technique is more successful than anything we've had in the past for identifying and localizing abnormalities in the breast in women with pathologic nipple discharge," said first author Jill Richardson Dietz, MD, assistant professor of surgery and a breast surgeon at the...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2002-12-03)

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