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Breast Cancer
Telemedicine improves breast screenings for rural Indian reservations
December 24th, 2006
Native American women who live in North Dakota and South Dakota are coming to the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center for their mammograms without ever leaving the reservation. U-M radiologists sought to improve delivery of traditional mobile mammography, in which a large truck equipped with mammography machines travels to various sites. Using digital mammography instead of films and adding satellite capability, they found the digital mammograms could be beamed to radiologists who could read them in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Mobile mammography is a critical way for Native American women to get a mammogram. But what happens when a woman needs...
Source: Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week (2006-12-24)
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