• With digital mammography, the electronic image appears within a matter of seconds onto a special high-resolution monitor. The radiologist can review the images, adjust the brightness, change contrast, and zoom in for close ups of specific areas of interest. This manipulation of the image is one of the main benefits of digital technology.
• Digital mammography has overcome some of the limitations of conventional film-based mammography, increasing the detection rate of breast cancer in mammographically dense breasts by 11%.
• Digital mammography uses 40 – 50% less radiation.
• Instead of having to hand-deliver a film image to the physician’s office, the radiologist can send the images via broadband internet.
• Digital images give better visibility of the breast, particularly near the skin line, chest wall, and in women with dense breast tissue. (A woman cannot know if her breasts are dense unless she has had a prior mammogram and was told by her doctor.)

Contributions and pledges to the Digital Mammography Capital Campaign (as of January 4, 2008) amount to $245,511. Your support, either now or a pledge of support that can be paid over a multi-year period, is greatly appreciated! Our goal is to raise the remaining $173,295 prior to ordering the equipment in the fourth quarter of 2008.

If you would like to help with this worthy cause, please contact Dave Campbell, Executive Director, at 509-764-2904.