New test for breast tumors: Water ultrasound imaging seems as accurate as mammography

DETROIT – You're lying face down on a massage table, your breast encased in a water bath through an opening in the table. Tiny ports from a surrounding ring fire ultrasound waves. There are no X-rays. There is no pain. There is no holding still for 20 minutes or more.

And in the time it takes to finish reading this paragraph, you will have safely and cheaply completed a high-definition, 360-degree mammogram, courtesy of an ultrasound imaging machine in experimental stages at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. Its inventors think it will soon become the preferred method for detecting and monitoring breast tumors.

source: Dallas News