Part I: First Things First. Breast Imaging: Until There's a Cure: The Unknown Frontier in Women's Health ; The Screening Mammogram Guidelines Controversy: What You Absolutely Must Know: Addressing the Elephant in the Room, and the Case for Tomosynthesis
The Who. You! How You Impact Your Care: Your Responsibilities and Information You Need to Know ; The Breast Imaging Team: Radiologist, Technologists, and Navigator ; The Rulers of Mammoland: MQSA, ACR, SBI, and the Other ABCs of Imaging ; Your Referring Doctor: The Delicate Balance of the Referral-Consult Relationship
The What. The Tools of Breast Imaging: A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
The Why. How It All Works: An Overview: A Bird's-Eye View of the Whole Process ; How It All Works: The Screening Evaluation: Screening the Asymptomatic Population and Saving Lives ; How It All Works: The Diagnostic Evaluation: Symptomatic Patients and the Journey to the Correct Diagnosis ; Breast Urgent-cies: The Cannot Wait Until Tomorrow! ; You Need a Biopsy-Don't Panic!: Image-Guided Needle Biopsy: A Remarkable Advance in Technology and Patient Care ; You Don't Have Breast Cancer: The Value of a Benign Evaluation ; You Have Been Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: The Critical Role of Radiology in Treatment Planning and Follow-up
Other Considerations. Special Cases: Pregnancy, Lactation, Breast Implants, Lymphoproliferative Disorders and Male Breast Cancer ; How Does Your Report Get to You and To Your Doctor?: No News Is Not Necessarily Good News ; Patients' Questions About the Imaging Evaluation: Leaving More Can Save Your Life
Breast Imaging Meets the Outside World. Medicolegal Issues and Liability: Can Breast Imaging Survive the Liability Crisis? ; Safety Issues in Mammography and Breast Imaging: Assessing the Risk-Benefit Ratio ; The Breast Density Discussion: Information versus Notification.
Breast imaging meets the outside world.
