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Article: Digital Computer Technology May Give Breast-Cancer Detection a Boost. (Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- October 23, 1994
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Oct. 24--Digital computer technology may be on the verge of revolutionizing the mammogram, creating more precise images with the potential for allowing doctors looking for breast cancer to catch, and therefore successfully treat, the disease far earlier than they can today.
That, at least, is the promise of an explosion of new work under way among companies and academic researchers, who have begun to use some of the most basic as well as the most esoteric tools from high technology in the battle against the fifth-largest cause of death in women.
In the short run, researchers are seeking to digitize the mammogram; further out, they are exploring entirely new ...