JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 As Breast Cancer Awareness month is coming to a close, a Jacksonville doctor from the Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center is encouraging women to get their mammograms. <\/p>\n
\u201cBecause as women, we get busy taking care of everyone else, and you just want to remember to don\u2019t forget to take care of yourself and put your health first and do your screenings,\u201d says Dr. Laila Samiian, the Chief of Breast Surgical Oncology at Baptist MS Anderson Cancer Center. \u201cBecause when you do your screening mammogram, if a cancer happens to be found, it\u2019ll be found at an earlier stage, which is curable most of the time. So it\u2019s more likely to be curable if it\u2019s caught early, and it\u2019s definitely going to be caught much earlier if it\u2019s seen on a mammogram than if you wait until you feel a lump.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Samiian says there have been advancements in screening for breast cancer. \u201cSo the mammograms, they\u2019re are like X-rays of your breasts. But now, we have 3-D tomosynthesis, and most places will do…it\u2019s like 11 cuts…even though it looks like you\u2019re doing one, two pictures. Those pictures are actually being done, 11 cuts through the breasts, so it\u2019s like a movie that looks through and through your breasts. So it\u2019s a lot more accurate than it used to be. There\u2019s an automated whole breast ultrasound that can add to your screening as a supplement to your mammogram. It doesn\u2019t replace the mammogram because the mammogram will pick up things that the ultrasound can\u2019t pick up. The ultrasound sometimes can pick up things that the mammogram can\u2019t pick up. so they\u2019re kind of used in conjunction for women who have very dense breasts or at high risk; they can add that. Breast MRI is used for women who have high-risk for developing breast cancer, such as if they have a family history, abnormal biopsies in the past, or genetic mutations. They can do Breast MRIs, which is really [an] ultimate screening, but again, it won\u2019t pick up calcifications that a mammogram can pick up. So all of those tests are used in conjunction with each other for us to detect abnormalities sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can hear more about testing and treatment in the full interview with Dr. Samiian on Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 As Breast Cancer Awareness month is coming to a close, a Jacksonville doctor from the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":345461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[18000,5229,169831,15634,117473,169833,169832,17998,3188,723,7310,17999,7325,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-345460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-18000","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-baptist-md-anderson-cancer-center","11":"tag-breast-cancer","12":"tag-breast-cancer-awareness","13":"tag-breast-cancer-treatment","14":"tag-dr-laila-samiian","15":"tag-duval","16":"tag-fl","17":"tag-florida","18":"tag-jacksonville","19":"tag-ne-florida","20":"tag-northeast-florida","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115468610080952876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}