Announcing Our NEW Digital DR Mammography Service
Waterloo Nuclear and Radiography now offers Mammography on a top-of-the-line, FULL FIELD DIGITAL GE unit!
Patients can now benefit from being imaged on the best DR technology equipment with less radiation exposure, all at the convenience of a clinic. This means that mammograms can be done faster.
Patients can now benefit from being imaged on the best DR technology equipment with less radiation exposure, all at the convenience of a clinic. This means that mammograms can be done faster.
No Wait Lists!
Curbside parking is available and parking is always free.
Curbside parking is available and parking is always free.
Study finds digital direct radiography (DR) and screen film more effective than computed radiography (CR) at detecting breast cancer *
*Posted on 2013/05/14 Cancer Care Ontario
“An independent study led by a Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) lead research scientist examining the technology used for mammography has found that digital direct radiography (DR) and screen film are significantly more effective than computed radiography (CR) at detecting breast cancer.
The study – funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, and published today in Radiology – analyzed 816,232 screens of 688,418 women who were screened in Ontario from 2008 to 2009 and concluded that screening with CR could result in about 10 fewer cancers detected per 10,000 women screened.”
“Screening finds breast cancer earlier, when there are more treatment options and an improved chance of survival.
For Ontario women aged 50 – 74, the 37 percent reduction in breast cancer death rates between 1990 and 2008 may be the result of better treatments and increased screening with mammography. In Ontario, 88 percent of women are alive and well five years after the diagnosis of breast cancer.”
“An independent study led by a Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) lead research scientist examining the technology used for mammography has found that digital direct radiography (DR) and screen film are significantly more effective than computed radiography (CR) at detecting breast cancer.
The study – funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, and published today in Radiology – analyzed 816,232 screens of 688,418 women who were screened in Ontario from 2008 to 2009 and concluded that screening with CR could result in about 10 fewer cancers detected per 10,000 women screened.”
“Screening finds breast cancer earlier, when there are more treatment options and an improved chance of survival.
For Ontario women aged 50 – 74, the 37 percent reduction in breast cancer death rates between 1990 and 2008 may be the result of better treatments and increased screening with mammography. In Ontario, 88 percent of women are alive and well five years after the diagnosis of breast cancer.”
