Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of breast cancers. Mammograms are the best breast cancer screening tests we have currently, but mammograms sometimes yield false-positives as well as false-negatives. This review focuses on new imaging techniques and their potential use. Mammograms are not always 100% accurate, for example, in dense breasts, cancers that do not present as mammographic microcalcifications are easily missed.
Also, such cases, some mammographic findings like masses, architectural distortions, asymmetries, and microcalcifications are not specific for breast cancer. Therefore, there is a constant hunt for new diagnostic tools in breast cancer. Some of the methods include three-dimensional (3D) approaches to x-ray mammography (digital breast tomosynthesis), contrast-enhanced mammography, quantifiable ultrasound techniques (e. g.,…
