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Ballad Health breast and diagnostic imaging centers utilize innovative three-dimensional breast mammography (3D mammograms) to detect breast cancer in its earliest stages.
Traditional 2D mammography could only take a single image in two directions, which causes two limitations. With conventional two-dimensional mammograms, breast cancers can be missed because they’re sometimes hidden behind normal breast tissue.
Normal breast tissues can also overlap one another, which creates what radiologists call a summation shadow in a 2D image. Though it isn't cancer, this "shadow" can look like cancer upon an initial glance. The effect is similar to the way words on one side of a page can appear to overlap the words on the back of a page when you hold it up to a light.
Seeing that shadow can mean further, unnecessary diagnostic testing, and can also lead to false positives.
For 3D mammography – which is also called 3D digital breast tomosynthesis or tomography (DBT) – a short X-ray sweep across the breast is used to create an image of the whole breast. The image is designed to separate the tissues and reduce the overlapping tissues that can result in false positive readings.
In fact, 3D mammograms allow the radiologist to take multiple pictures of each breast from various angles. This just isn’t possible with a traditional 2D mammogram due to its limitations.
Three-dimensional digital mammography improves early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. And this helps us put an even greater emphasis on your well-being as a patient.
3D mammography provides:
In addition to being unique in some important ways, 3D mammography is similar to 2D in some important ways.
Ballad Health offers fully accredited breast centers, some of which have been named Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.
Our Centers have experienced staff and knowledgeable physicians geared to offer the best possible experience.
In one convenient, spa-like facility, you can have access to:
Learn more about mammograms at Ballad Health here.
If you’re a current Ballad Health patient, it’s easier than ever to make a screening mammogram appointment on the Ballad Health app through your MyChart account. For new patients, call 1‑833‑8‑BALLAD.