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When push comes to shove: Addressing compression in mammography
10/5/04 By Shalmali Pal at www.auntminnie.com
In fact, breast imaging has only one truly scary “C,” and it isn’t compression, according to Bonnie Rush, a mammography technologist and president of Breast Imaging Specialists in San Diego.
“When a woman comes in for a mammogram, the message that keeps going through her head is the mantra of breast cancer: ‘I’ve probably got breast cancer,’ ‘I’m sure I’ve got breast cancer,’ ‘What if I’ve got breast cancer?”’ Rush said. “Instead of talking about that big ‘C,’ she talks about … compression since she dares not talk about her fear of breast cancer.”
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