The "donna" is designed especially for women from 50 a possible breast cancer at an early stage and thus to ensure a less burdensome treatment and better prognosis. Because breast cancer in women under 70, the most common cancer.
In the health care of the Canton takes "donna" an important place. St.Gallen is the first canton in German-speaking Switzerland who, in the national project for the early detection of breast cancer, a quality-controlled mammography screening program. In collaboration with the Cancer League St. Gallen-Appenzell this screening was implemented at the highest level of quality.
Smaller than a cherry pit
The radiologist Dr. David Matt explained that with today's devices already tumors the size of a cherry stone and can be detected smaller. The interpretation of mammography images, however, requires experience and experience again. And as to be sure, would come two completely independent reviewers to the same result. If they are not in agreement, a third expert will attend. Moreover, additional findings were in critical ultrasound and possibly arranged tissue samples. "Fortunately, we now 9 out of 10 women studied released no findings."
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