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Early detection of breast cancer is one of the keys to decrease the mortality of this epidemic disease. Since the time that the NIH recommended X-ray mammography for an annual screening for women over 50 years of age (1), the mortality has indeed dramatically reduced (2). However, there are some concerns about the use of X-ray mammography; we consider the X-ray to be an unsatisfactory technique for this screening purpose. X-ray mammography is insensitive to one-fourth of cancer cases and itself is carcinogenic. It does not penetrate dense breasts, and is generally not applied to women under 40 years of age.
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Nioka, S. et al. (1997). Optical Imaging of Breast Tumor by Means of Continuous Waves. In: Nemoto, E.M., et al. Oxygen Transport to Tissue XVIII. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 411. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5865-1_27
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