Because ultrasounds have trouble with dense tissue and if you have a breast with lots of cysts, etc. the ultrasound will just be confusing.

MRIs are a possilbility but they are not usually covered as screening procedures by insurance plans, only as diagnostics.  And they're only just beginning to be postulated as a possible diagnostic tool for breast cancer, but it'll take a while for it to be accepted as a standard.

Kat


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From: Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 07/24/03 08:37 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Hey all

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> Hi Mike,

   What I don;t understand is why they don't use cat scans and MRI's. Cat
scans can make individual slice pictures looks like that would give a
better view of a tumor or growth and its primeters.

                                                   Trisha


> How come???  If they can tsake sonargrams of developing babies, they
> should be able to do the same for cancer.
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> >It is here, just beginning to use ultra-sound for breast exams, but it
is
> >very expensive I hear.
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