Have you heard about Gammagrams?
First of all, doesn’t it sound like something your gramma would bring over to your house to cheer you up? The Detroit Free Press writes about a new diagnosis breast-specific gamma imaging, uses a radioactive injection that lights up tumor cells, which have high metabolic activity. It is a diagnostic tool, when cancer is suspected, not a screening machine used annually to find breast cancer. And it remains largely unproven; not enough studies have been done to show it saves lives and money.
But doctors can easily read the gammagram and can give women an immediate diagnosis. It may help some patients avoid biopsies or waiting as long as six months for another mammogram, which can happen if an X-ray is too cloudy.
Another plus: A gammagram does not require painful compression of the breast as mammograms do.
All this- plus cheap housing? I might be moving to Michigan!
Read the full article by clicking below-