Diagnostic Imaging Updates

Our mantra is: yearly screening mammograms for all women over 40 with breasts. We have not discussed in any detail times when imaging is required

The year is still new – we can tell because everyone’s still writing the date as 1/30/13… oops. With this new year in particular comes

We couldn’t very well cover inflammatory breast cancer yesterday without talking about the IBC Network Foundation today. For women who are diagnosed with inflammatory breast

Of all the types of breast cancers out there (breast cancer is not one singular disease but many different types), inflammatory breast cancer is… especially

We’ve come a long way when it comes to breast cancer treatment. Today, a woman has options for treatment including surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and

Continuing our series on nipple discharge – there are a few non-breast related causes which warrant discussion. Prolactinoma is a non-cancerous tumor of the brain

Our week long discussion of breast discharge would be incomplete without a discussion of papillomas. This is one of the more common causes of discharge-

We are exploring breast discharge this week, and while the imaging evaluation may include routine things like mammography, breast ultrasound or breast MRI, there is

Nipple discharge is the leakage of fluid from the nipple and can take a variety of forms and be the result of a number of

Discharge or leakage of fluid from the nipple – while not common – is certainly disconcerting. We’ve mentioned the topic of nipple discharge in the