Breast cancer is the most abundant cancer in women. Early diagnosis increases the success of the treatment in most of the patients. Thus, mammography is a wide performed diagnostic tool in breast cancer throughout the World.
The image is obtained by X-Rays in mammography. However, digital mammography is technically designed differently from the other X-ray based machines. The harmful effects of x-ray to the delicate tissue of the breast has been reduced to minimum. Digital mammography also gives the radiologists the chance to examine the tissue in different views.
Sometimes, It is also reccomended to examine the breast with ultrasonographic technique to give more precise results.