October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, honoring those impacted, while raising awareness for medical advancements.
"Women lay on their stomach and their breast goes into water," Dr. Vershalee Shukla said. "The benefit of this is there is no radiation, there’s no compression and there’s no contrast."
"It’s actually more accurate," said Vershalee. "It’s better for dense breast – a lot of women have dense breasts – which traditional mammography is not so good for."is one of the most common cancers she treats, as 1 in 7 women will develop it in their lifetime.Shukla is the co-founder of the Vincere Cancer Center in. They also run a cancer screening program for first responders who are at high risk of developing workplace cancers, like Jeannie Deida, a retired police officer.
Deida says the Vincere Cancer Center's doctors, treatment and especially the QT ultrasound have made all the difference. The machine takes 3D images without compressing the breast. And things are getting even less invasive. They're using and trialing liquid biopsy tests – basically a blood test to detect cancer.
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