South Australian women now have access to a new type of breast screen that can diagnose cancer more effectively than a regular mammogram.
Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) offers a significant advantage over traditional mammograms, particularly for women with dense breast tissue.
Radiologist Dr Shan Bau explained detecting cancer could be particularly difficult in some women.
“If you have a dense breast it is a little bit like looking for a polar bear in a snowstorm,” she said.
CEM addresses this issue by injecting a contrast dye into the patient’s arm, allowing only cancerous cells to show up on the mammogram image.
“It allows us to detect cancers at a very early stage regardless of the woman’s breast density.”
This new technology is as accurate as an MRI …