Abstract
By 1956, X-ray examination of the breast had so improved that it had become a routine complement to physical examination of the breast. While these two procedures have remained the standards for breast cancer detection, each has its limitations. During the past two decades, additional methods for detecting breast cancer have been sought. These have included attempts to improve the radiographic technique, thermography, infrared scanning, light transmission, radioisotope scanning, galactography, pneumocystography, utilization of the Doppler effect, computed tomographic (CT) scanning, heavy-particle imaging, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
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Egan, R.L., McSweeney, M.B., Murphy, F.B. (1984). Breast Sonography and the Detection of Cancer. In: Brünner, S., Langfeldt, B., Andersen, P.E. (eds) Early Detection of Breast Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 90. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82031-1_12
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