OSF HealthCare Saint Elizabeth Medical Center in Peru has expanded its automated breast ultrasound screening, known as ABUS, to five days a week, up from two days when the service started. The exam is meant for patients with dense breast tissue, which can hide cancer on a mammogram because dense tissue and tumors both show up white on the images. ABUS uses sound waves instead of radiation to build three-dimensional images, takes about 15 minutes and is done alongside a regular screening mammogram, not instead of one. OSF says that in the two years the Peru hospital has offered it, providers have found several breast cancers smaller than one centimeter that mammograms alone missed. Patients who have been told they have dense breasts are encouraged to ask their primary care provider whether ABUS is right for them. More information is at osfhealthcare.org/breast-health.
OSF HealthCare Saint Elizabeth Medical Center in Peru has expanded its automated breast ultrasound screening, known as ABUS, to five days a week, up from two days when the service started. The exam is meant for patients with dense breast tissue, which can hide cancer on a mammogram because dense tissue and tumors both show up white on the images. ABUS uses sound waves instead of radiation to build three-dimensional images, takes about 15 minutes and is done alongside a regular screening mammogram, not instead of one. OSF says that in the two years the Peru hospital has offered it, providers have found several breast cancers smaller than one centimeter that mammograms alone missed. Patients who have been told they have dense breasts are encouraged to ask their primary care provider whether ABUS is right for them. More information is at osfhealthcare.org/breast-health.
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