Elastography

A blog entry titled Elastrography Can Instantly Identify Breast Cancer at the Health News Blog reports a story about an experimental ultrasound technology known as elastography. Test trials utizing it have been sucessful so far. It offers some advantages over the current means of diagnossis- biopsy. The accuracy has been reported to be 100 per cent and the determination instant. Expenses and waiting times could also be reduced as well as patient anxiety. So far the technology looks promising but it is as yet not available for common use.

One negative note, which pervades the world of medicine, was the view that legal reasons will play a factor in prolonging the use of biopses. We'll have to keep an eye on further deeveloments.