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Friday, May 22, 2015

See the Screening Method That's Catching Breast Cancer More than Mammographies

We here with The Pink Event® love technology and science. After all, medical advances help us get closer to a lasting medical cure for breast cancer. In addition to shining a hot pink spotlight on female entrepreneurship,  The Pink Event cares very passionately about breast cancer awareness and education.

So we really enjoyed this recent piece in The Huffington Post about a new type of breast cancer screening called digital breast tomosynthesis. This is a 3-D screening method that a new medical study says is better at detecting breast cancer tumors than mammographies and is also less painful. Additionally, women are exposed to less radiation in the screening process. 

Read more about this new advancement in the story and check out this video the article had that gives a better idea of technology at its finest!