April 28, 20199:00 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition, NPR.org
When women get a mammogram they may be offered one of two types. The older type of mammogram takes a single straightforward X-ray image of the breast. The newer 3D takes pictures from many angles. Now, more evidence shows that 3D mammography offers a more thorough picture of breast tissue and is more accurate.
When Mary Hu, an administrator in communications with Yale School of Medicine, went to get a mammogram two years ago, she didn't even know she was getting 3D mammography, also called digital breast tomosynthesis. But she's glad that's what she got.
"I am really a walking advertisement for early detection through this advanced technology," she says. Thanks to 3D mammography her doctors found a small, but malignant tumor in her breast. They discovered it at a very early stage.
"My treatment was really as easy as it was because we caught it so, so early," says Hu, who had a lumpectomy to remove the tumor. And because it was detected so early, she didn't need chemotherapy. Her radiation was done in just three weeks and four days.
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