A SCANNING technique that highlights the blood vessels that feed growing tumours could help reveal whether breast lumps on mammograms are cancerous. Initial tests suggest it could cut the number of false alarms by 70 per cent, sparing many women from unnecessary biopsies.
Mammograms, simple X-rays that show up denser tissue in the breast, are widely used to screen women over 35 years old for breast cancer. But in recent years the value of mammogram screening has been questioned. Many lumps turn out to be harmless, or mere artefacts of the scanning process. And some cancerous lumps are are so…
