Health and Fitness

FDA Approves First Breast Ultrasound Imaging System for Dense Breast Tissue

Device designed to help health care providers detect smaller tumors

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2012.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first ultrasound device for use in combination with a standard mammography in women with dense breast tissue who have a negative mammogram and no symptoms of breast cancer.
 
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death among women. This year an estimated 226,870 women will be diagnosed with…

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