WMC chief radiologist Ann Kramer shows off the hospital’s new GE Senographe mammography machine. The machine will enter full service in early July.
Modern mammography, or the ability to detect cancerous growths in the breast has existed in medical science since 1969, when inventor Albert Salomon developed a dedicated X-ray unit for the procedure.
Before that time, simple X-ray machines were used to seek out malignant tumors in the breast. With the passage of time, however, technology has taken the science – and art – of detecting those tumors to new heights.
Wrangell Medical Center can now add their name to the list of hospitals across the nation that possess the latest in cutting-edge equipment used to detect cancer, and save millions of...
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