Breast Cancer Detection: A Simpler Alternative To Mammograms?

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Mon, 07/28/2008 - 08:30

Whether a painless, portable device that uses electrical current rather than X-ray to look for breast cancer could be an alternative to traditional mammograms is under study.

New research will compare traditional mammograms to impedence scanning, a technique based on evidence that electrical current passes through cancerous tissue differently than through normal tissue.

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