Mammography

This is an article about one of the side-effects of the switch to digital mammography: More calls to the patients to come in for a second look.

My local radiology center converted to digital, I had my first digital one last year. I got called back, but luckily for me, the call came from the gynecologist's office, who explained that the vast majority of do-overs found nothing. That was good, for all I got from the radiologist was a letter that said: "we see an anomaly, come back in for a second test" (or words to that effect).

It would have been even better if someone had told me that it was a by-product of the switch to digital mammography. Then I might not have spent a week or so with the nagging worry of whether this was going to be a nasty battle with cancer. As it was, it turned out to be nothing and I had emotions ranging from relief to wanting to throttle the radiologist. (I went with "relief.")