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Charity Day, Sunday 25th July 2010
Siemens Breast Mammography Machine
Charity Day 2010
Funds collected for the 2010 Charity Day
Will go towards the purchase of a
DIGITAL BREAST MAMMOGRAPHY MACHINE
FOR WESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL

So put this date into your diary,
and make this another
successful Charity Day
At Weston General Hospital we have been providing a Breast screening service for the last 14 years. It was due to the
kind support of the League of Friends that we were able to purchase the original mammography machine which
allowed us to x-ray and develop our services at Weston so that women no longer had to travel to Bristol for
mammography.

CONVENTIONAL MAMMOGRAPHY
The image is captured on a film held in a cassette with a screen, this then has to be developed in a processor. It takes
about 2 minutes for each film to be developed, and most women will have 4 films taken. Conventional imaging
magnification images have to be done on the patient and this is often a painful procedure. They are also processed in a
costly and time consuming way.

FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY (FFDM)
Women are still x-rayed as with the conventional machine, but the machine has a detector which converts x-rays into
electrical signals producing an image of the breast that can be viewed almost immediately by the Radiographer,
Radiologist and Consultant breast surgeon. It would take a couple of seconds to view image as opposed to number of
minutes with a processor and there would be savings in staff time as no longer required to process, change chemistry
etc. Overall this would be a quicker and more streamlined service for patients.
The Radiologist can manipulate this image, magnify it and decrease or increase its density. With digital mammography
this can be done on the image, so the women only need to have the initial 4 films. These are all useful tools in the
detection of early cancer. Digital mammography is particularly useful in looking at both young and dense breasts –
often those where early cancers can be missed.

WHY WE NEED THIS MACHINE!
Originally as mammography images are required to have lots of small detail (picking up of small calcifications that can
indicate early change) the digital system currently used in Radiology did not have the required detail and could not
record all the information in the image potentially missing some cancers. Also the storage of detailed images like this
was also a problem as they use more pixels than conventional digital imaging. As digital Radiology units become the
norm there has been a push for manufacturers to develop good digital mammography systems and as a result costs
have started to come down although it is still relatively expensive to have a digital mammography unit.

WE DON’T REALLY WANT OUR PATIENTS TO TRAVEL TO BRISTOL—DO WE?
At the moment only North Bristol Trust have digital mammography, however Avon Breast Screening and the other
symptomatic units in the region are all currently moving towards it. If we had FFDM at Weston we would be able to
provide the benefits to our patients quicker and there would also be the potential for us to utilise the equipment more.

BENEFITS OF THE DIGITAL SCANNER:
• Improves image quality
• Patients get seen quicker
• Reduced number of times that patients are recalled and images retaken
• Very useful for examining the type of breast tissue typically found in young women.
• Electronic archiving allows for rapid storage and recovery of previous images for review,
avoiding the frustrations and potential dangers of lost films
• Ability to repeat images almost immediately this reduces anxiety for our patients