>Valley Hospital offering new 3-D mammograms
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012
BY BARBARA WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood has become one of the first hospitals in the state and the only medical center in Bergen or Passaic counties to have a 3-D mammography machine, a new tool in breast cancer detection.
Dr. Lauren Levy, a radiologist at the hospital’s breast center, said the technology helps her find errant cells more easily by allowing her to look at a breast in sections.
“Imagine looking at the breast from the side and trying to find a grape somewhere in the middle of it,” Levy said. “Now think about being able to look at each individual slice to find it. That’s what 3-D mammography does — it slices the breast for us to look at in pieces.”
High-risk patients — those with dense breast tissue, women with a family history of breast cancer or patients who have had an abnormality detected by a traditional mammogram — have been screened on the new device since late November.
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