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Jess Dalehite
Midland HealthMidland Health and The Breast Center are proud to announce the arrival of ABUS (Automated Breast Ultrasound). ABUS is our next level offering of the best technology to provide the best opportunity for early breast cancer detection. So, what is ABUS and what can it do for you?
As you probably recall from previous articles in this column, mammography is not the only tool we use at The Breast Center to diagnose breast cancer. Both breast ultrasound and MRI are invaluable adjuncts to mammography in our fight against breast cancer. Ultrasound and MRI can be used as screening and diagnostic modalities. Screening ultrasound is usually recommended for women with dense breasts (increased fibroglandular tissue) that tends to camouflage cancer on mammography. Ultrasound uses harmless sound waves to image breast cancer rather than x-rays used in mammography. Ultrasound can see through the dense breast tissue that mammography cannot. Mammography can see microcalcifications that may indicate very early or pre-cancerous lesions that ultrasound cannot, so they work together in the detection of early, curable breast cancer. MRI is more sensitive than both mammography and ultrasound in the diagnosis of breast cancer but is currently reserved for high-risk patients (greater than 20 percent lifetime risk of breast cancer) due to cost and availability.
So, screening ultrasound is used for average risk patients (10-14 percent lifetime risk) with dense breasts. Until now, these screening ultrasound exams have been performed as handheld, real time studies by our highly qualified sonographers. The ABUS system is designed to give a broad range overview of the entire breast making it easier for year over year comparisons and for more accurate detection of suspicious areas in the breast that need further attention. This automated system will also free up our sonographers to do what they do best, which is hunting down targeted areas of concern and assist in ultrasound guided biopsies. This makes our department more efficient and allows all participants in the breast cancer detection process to play to their individual strengths.
Midland Health and The Breast Center’s top goal is to provide the patients of Midland County and the Permian Basic with technology and knowledge that exceeds expectations when it comes to early breast cancer detection and treatment. ABUS is one of many technologies that we are implementing to move the needle toward eliminating this deadly disease from our community. Expect excellence, we do.
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Jess Dalehite, MD, is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist at The Breast Center
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