From the July 2016 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Three venders offer tomosynthesis systems in the U.S. At least five vendors offer tomosynthesis systems in the international market. Large longitudinal studies in Europe and the U.S. make it clear that the benefits of tomosynthesis are significant, the benefits are significant for dense and fatty breasts and the benefits hold up over time. Is a mature technology with thousands of installs, hundreds of peer reviewed papers, offered by all the major mammography vendors, and millions of women screened with the technology, still experimental?
Emily F. Conant, M.D., Chief of Breast Imaging, the Department of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of several of the key papers on the benefits of breast tomosynthesis, wrapped up the significance of tomosynthesis this way: “It’s the most exciting improvement to mammography that I have seen in my career, even more important than the conversion from screen-film mammography to digital mammography.”
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Tomosynthesis exams are not “fast becoming” the gold standard in breast cancer screening. They already are.
About the author: Jim Culley, Ph.D., principal of ITERATIONS LLC, retired from Hologic, Inc. in 2015. His imaging career goes back to DuPont, Sterling Diagnostic Imaging and Direct Radiography Corp. For 19 years he was part of the team that made Hologic a leading global health care and diagnostics company. The opinions expressed by Dr. Culley are his and not necessarily those of Hologic.Back to HCB News
