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JANUARY 2, 2017

Increased Role for Tomosynthesis in Breast Practice Predicted

By Elizabeth Gardner

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Chicago—Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) may be the future of mammography screening, replacing traditional two-dimensional (2-D) and becoming the new standard of care, or so Sarah Friedewald, MD, a radiologist at the Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern University, in Chicago, predicts. Other experts are not so certain about DBT’s role, however, saying that the benefits of DBT are incremental.

In a presentation at the 2016 Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium, Dr.