The system can detect a tumor the size of a pin, and can be diagnosed with breast cancer one year before the current equipment.
The new type of mammography reduced false positives from 10 to 25% today, only 2%, no need to compress the breast for better images and enable the detection of tumors at very early stages, up to a year before the best diagnostic systems used to date.
A new system designed from Combating Cancer program
In the framework of the European Union Combating Cancer And from the joint work of a multidisciplinary team designed a new mammography system to which they have named MAMMI. Participating in the project, researchers at the joint center of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), the Centre for Energy Environment and Technology and the Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia, in collaboration with European research centers.
Valencia coach Jose Maria Benlloch, design coordinator explained that “The system developed is the one with higher resolution and sensitivity of the world and is dedicated specifically to the detection of breast cancer in early stages and the evaluation of treatment response of patients.”
MAMMI is the best gift of the Women’s Day
Of the 200 existing types of cancer, which causes higher mortality among women is the breast cancer that rises to first place among 35 to 54 years. In the world die each year about 400,000 women for breast cancer. In Spain, detected 15,000 cases per year. Early detection of tumor that reduces mortality by more than 80% and treatment success depends on the disease, especially in the early diagnosis of the same. Unwittingly science has made it an invaluable gift to all the ladies, a few hours to be the International Women’s Day.
Simple and efficient procedure
The system analyzes activities and formlessness. The tumor cells consume 20 to 40 times more sugar than normal and this is precisely one of the detections made by the MAMMI PET. To scan your chest, the patient lies on a table, enter the breast in a circular scanner, hence they do not need crushing and allows doctors to see areas that leave hidden common mammograms.
Using nuclear medicine
The design presented Thursday is based on the use of nuclear medicine, in short, a positron emission tomography, which allows non-invasively measuring metabolic activity of the tumor. The system provides image resolution four times better than current whole-body PET tracer with much lower doses.
Today there are two in the world Mammis
The new model of Positron Emission Tomography, PET English has been developed and marketed by ONCOVISION Valencia. Just today there are two units, one in the National Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and one in the Clinic of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. In the latter place have made different clinical trials that support its result. In Spain, the first hospital will have one will be the Castellon County and America, the National Rebagliatti of Lima, Peru.