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  Diagram 1.1, Breast Lesion		 Breast cancer occurs in different forms. About 25% of proven cancers will remain inactive in the breast and not grow or metastasize even in the absence of medical treatment. Many cancers are very low grade and grow slowly over 5-10 years before turning highly malignant. This type calcifies and is picked up very well on mammograms. Some cancers grow rapidly and are highly malignant. These tumors seem to be best diagnosed by sonograms because sonography can detect a malignancy when it is 1/4 inch in size and is highly accurate especially in high risk patients with lumpy breasts where mammograms are of limited diagnostic value. A recent addition to diagnosis of dangerous masses has been the addition of power Doppler sonography. This test is simple and shows the blood flow in abnormal vessels required by cancers to grow and metastasize. The combined use of breast sonograms with Doppler blood flow study will provide early detection of most highly malignant cancers resulting in life saving early diagnosis and sparing the patient radical surgery. This result requires special training by the physician and state of the art sonograms. Sonography detects 4 times as many cancers as physical examinations and twice as many cancers as mamography(1).  New non-invasive prevention and treatment modalities are now available.





1.American Journal of Radiology
January, 2000

 

2.  Guercini F, Giannantoni A, Bard R:

Intraprostatic Botulinum Toxin Injection in Patients with Severe Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Multicenter Study 100th American Urological Association, 2005

 

3. Liebeskind M, Bard R:

Dynamic Prostate MRI: Clinical Practice Using 3TP/Prostream Radiologic Society North America, 2005   

 

4. Bard R:

3D Ultrasound Imaging of Anterior Prostate Cancers 106th American Roentgen Ray Society, 2006

 

5. Bard R:

HIFU of Prostate Cancer: US/MRI Diagnosis and Follow Up World Congress Interventional Oncology, 2006

 

6.  Bard R:

3D Ultrasound/3Tesla MRI of Interval Prostate Cancers 55th Journee Francaise de Radiology Paris  2006

 

7.  Bard R:

MRI-3D US Detection of Anterior Prostate Tumors  ASCO  2007

 

8.  Bard R:

Non-invasive Treatment of Early Prostate Cancer  ASCO  2007

 






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