Breast Cancer Detection: A Simpler Alternative To Mammograms?
Monday, July 28, 2008 - 08:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Whether a painless, portable device that uses electrical current rather than X-ray to look for breast cancer could be an alternative to traditional mammograms is under study. New research will compare traditional mammograms to impedence scanning, a technique based on evidence that electrical current passes through cancerous tissue differently than through normal tissue.