What is a GammaGram™?

A GammaGram™ is an advanced molecular breast imaging procedure that shows the metabolic activity of breast lesions.

All other imaging technologies take a look at the physical structure of the breast tissue. Gammagram is different.

Gammagram™ looks at the cellular activity within the breast. Since cancer cells act differently than normal cells, a Gammagram will spot that different behavior. Any disease will begin at a cellular level - long before it is capable of being detected with a structural exam (ie. Mammography, Ultrasound and MRI). A Gammagram™ changes all that.

The GammaGram™ procedure, technically called Breast Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI), has been performed on more than 80,000 patients in both hospitals and private imaging centers across the country. Right now, more and more medical and imaging centers across the country are investing in this proven, life-saving technology.

The Procedure

A small amount of tracing agent is delivered to the patient, and is absorbed by all cells in the body. The tracing agent emits invisible gamma rays, which are detected in the GammaGram™ and translated into a digital image of the breast. Due to the higher metabolic activity of cancerous cells, these cells absorb a greater amount of the tracing agent and are revealed as "dark spots."

Other tests, such mammography and ultrasound, image the physical structure of the breast. GammaGram™ (BSGI) captures the actual cellular function of the breast tissue.

GammaGrams are a valuable tool following a questionable mammogram, when further evaluation is needed, especially when patients have:

• dense breast tissue
• multiple indeterminate or suspicious lesions or clusters of microcalcifications
• lesions that can be felt, but not detected with mammography or ultrasound
• post-surgical or post-therapeutic densities
• implants
• been taking Hormone Replacement Therapy

The result is quicker and more accurate detection of breast cancer than with mammography alone.

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Advantages of GammaGram

• No painful compression of the breast
• Can find cancers missed by mammography and ultrasound
• Answers immediately following the procedure
• Accurate results
• Costs less than other imaging techniques