value of mammography for early detection of contralateral breast cancer

ABSTRACT

Cancer breast is concidered as one of the most common causes of death among females. Early detection before the disease is symptomatic is the best way to improve survival rate and health state of the affected women. Mammography remains the gold standard technique in breast cancer imaging due to its ability to detect clinically occult disease. The senstivity of the procedure in detecting a non symptomatising contralateral breast involvement in patients with breast cancer in our study was 100%. The percentage of bilaterality in our series was 88% [71372] patients. From these findings and those reported in the litrature by other authors, we conclude that screening mammography to the contralateral breast in symptomatic patients is a must and routine technique for early detection and presumably better prognosis