The History Of The Mammogram

THE HISTORY OF THE MAMMO GRAM For more than 100 years, the tools for detecting breast cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages have improved through constant evolution. The latest technology provides a 3D view, allowing doctors to examine breast tissue layer-by-layer and making fine details more visible. 1900 1910 1913 1930 German surgeon Albert Salomon attempts to visualize cancer of the In the U.S., Stafford L. Warren breast through radiography. confirms the usefulness of mammography as a diagnostic tool and emphasizes the 1920 importance of comparing the right and left breasts side-by-side. 1930 1949 Raul Leborgne, a radiologist from Uruguay, introduces the compression technique and reports his findings in a landmark publication in 1951. Late'50s 1940 Robert L. Egan, a Houston, Texas, radiologist introduces a new technique using a fine-grain intensifying screen and industrial film for clearer images. 1950 1956-'59 士 1/3 Dr. Egan and colleagues at MD t. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston take films of 1,000 RIP women who did not have obvious 1960 RIP cancer in a physical exam, identifying 238 cancerous 1963-'66 masses by mammography alone. Dr. Philip Strax collaborates on the first large-scale controlled study of women to gauge mammograms' role in reducing deaths; the study MID'60s 1970 showed mammography reduced breast cancer deaths by a third. Mammograms gain acceptance as a screening tool. 1980 1972 1969 A high-definition intensifying screen with a new film revolutionizes film 1990 mammography. The new combination allows for sharper The modern-day film mammogram is invented, and X-ray units dedicated to breast imaging are available. images, rapid processing and shorter exposure to radiation. 2000 MQSA ee 1992 u 1992 Congress enacts the Mammography Quality Standards Act to ensure that all women 2001 have access to mammography for breast cancer detection. 1976 Mammography is recommended as a screening tool by the American Cancer Society. 2002 or 2003 1993 The American College of Radiology establishes the Breast Imaging and Reporting Data System (BI-RADS), creating a common language among doctors (a scoring system of 0-6) to report mammogram results. 2004 2000 The FDA approves the first digital mammography system. Now images could be stored in a computer, magnified, transferred and corrected for under or 2005 overexposure without having to obtain another image. 1991 30% O 2009 2006 2009 The American Cancer Society notes breast cancer deaths are down 30% since their peak in 1991 2007 thanks to improvements in early detection and treatment. 2011 2008 The FDA approves Hologic's 3D mammography technology (also known as breast tomosynthesis), the first to be proven clinically superior to digital mammography. The new 3D technology takes multiple images of each breast, allowing 2009 March 7, 2011 doctors to examine the breast layer-by-layer. Instead of viewing all of the complexities of the tissue in a flat image, as with The Massachusetts General Breast Imaging team performs the first clinical 3D mammography exam in traditional digital mammo fine details are more visible and the United States. no longer hidden by the tissue 2010 above or below. 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