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...takes a particularly skilled radiologist to do a Mammotome on smaller breasts like mine. If I hadn't found such a radiologist, I might very well have lost a chunk of my breast for no reason. Instead I had a quick, simple procedure. Fully conscious, with only a local anesthetic, I lay facedown on an examining table with a hole in it for my left breast. Then my physician, Dr. Joshua Gross of New York's Beth Israel Hospital, a leading expert on Mammotomes, located the calcifications with a digital X ray. Through an incision no bigger than a match...
...showed my mammograms to four other radiologists. Excessive, maybe. But one was equivocal, and the other three said they would never have suggested a biopsy. That was reassuring but confusing. The fact remained that a skilled radiologist had raised the specter of breast cancer, and while other doctors saw things differently, I was stuck. No one could undo her written report, not in this litigious age. Meanwhile, the idea that I might have cancer had taken root. I knew that if I didn't have the tissue analyzed by a pathologist, I'd never stop worrying...
Like millions of American women, I go faithfully to the radiologist for my annual mammogram. Unlike most women, I got a bad report last month. Tiny specks in my breast, called calcifications, looked to my radiologist as if they had changed since the last time I was tested. Her recommendation: a procedure called a needle-localized excisional biopsy...
DIED. PHILIP STRAX, 90, impassioned radiologist who ran free clinics for women and championed early detection of breast cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Stricken by the loss of his first wife to the disease, Strax helped lead a landmark 62,000-woman-strong study in the 1960s that found mammography could reduce fatalities by a third...
Kirks, a pediatric radiologist and former Kirkpatrick professor of radiology at HMS, once was frequently asked to speak at conventions and universities around the world...