Technicians at HCM City’s Hung Vuong Obstetrics Hospital perform a digital mammogram. (Photo: VNA)HCM
City (VNA) – in HCM City has got a
, the first public hospital in the city to use one,
a top city health official said.
Tang
Chi Thuong, Deputy Director of the Department of Health, said the modern
machine would make improve diagnosis and make it safer, and enhance the quality
of treatment.
Breast
cancer is one of the most common diseases treated at the city’s Oncology
Hospital, he said.
Obstetrics
hospitals should set up departments to treat breast cancer to reduce the huge
overload on the Oncology Hospital, he added.
The
advantages of digital mammography are that digital images can be manipulated
for a better view and digital mammograms deliver smaller amounts of radiation
than film-screen mammograms do, Le Thi Quynh Ha, head of Hung Vuong’s diagnostic
imaging department, said.
With
digital mammography, the images are recorded directly in a computer and can be
transmitted electronically to other hospitals, she said.
Mammography
is the most common screening test for breast cancer, Hoang Thi Diem Tuyet, said
the hospital’s Director.
A
mammogram can detect breast cancer in 90 percent of women with the disease if
they are aged more than 50, Tuyet said
In
Vietnam, around 15,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, she
said.
More
than 90 percent diagnosed at the earliest stage survive for more than five
years, she added.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
