Last Friday we had a State Inspection at one of our off-site mammography facilities. Since I am the one in charge of all of the quality control at all of our off-site facilities, this meant that I was in the hot seat! Through all of the years of working in mammography, State Inspections are still one area that I really do not think that I will ...

Perhaps many of you are already aware of a medication called DES and its effects on women in regards to breast cancer. So maybe I should be a little embarrassed about not knowing about this medication after working in the field for so long, but I am going to assume if I haven't heard about it before, maybe there are more of you out there like ...

With any luck, there may soon be a new test available to help with the early detection of breast cancer. This new source of information comes from a very unlikely source: our hair. An Australian company called Fermiscan has come up with a method that tests about 20 strands of hair. This test is based on the discovery that women with breast cancer ...

I read a very sad statistic the other day.  The article that I was reading estimated that about 45 million Americans were without health insurance at some point last year. With the upcoming presidential election, healthcare coverage is already proving to be a hot topic. Regardless of what solution you may think will work, the hard ...

When I was first asked if I was interested in writing a mammography blog, I was so flattered that I immediately jumped at the chance!  I read all of the other blogs on the ADVANCE site and was truly inspired.  I must admit that prior to posting this blog, I really did not spend much time on the internet or on my home computer at all. ...

If I had a dollar for every patient who asked or commented on the word ''Bucky,'' I would be able to retire by now. How many of your patients have commented, ''What a cute name that the machine has!''?  Or have you had more patients ask you if ''Bucky'' is the name of the guy who invented the unit? I would love to give these patients ...

After you call your patient from the waiting room to the mammography suite and the door shuts behind you both, something that they never prepare you for throughout all those classes you've taken to get you to this point quite often occurs.  What I am referring to is the number of patients who use this time to really open ...

There have been many studies published recently regarding the benefits of breast ultrasound, even as a screening tool. Breast ultrasound is a common exam for patients experiencing some type of breast symptom throughout our healthcare system. But who is performing this test? Mammographers can now perform breast ultrasound after ...

The world around us has certainly sped up since I was a child. When I was about seven or eight, I remember after a day of swimming in our pool, my dad suggested we go to this new hamburger place to get Big Macs. Now, fast food surrounds us wherever we go; telephones accompany us in the car; and the internet has opened up the entire world to us at ...

Spring is in the air and what better topic to discuss than gowns! I am sure many of you with teenage daughters would far prefer to discuss gowns related to Prom, but this is a mammography blog, so therefore the topic of this discussion must be those lovely items that we ask our patients to wear while they are getting a mammogram. Like I have ...