Ultrasound may markedly improve cancer detection in dense breasts.

Reports that ultrasound examination can overcome much of the decreased sensitivity of mammography in a search for cancer in patients with radiographically dense breasts. Study of women who underwent mammography and ultrasound examination by Thomas M. Kolb, Jabob Lichy and Jeffrey H. Newhouse; Criteria which must be met before the routine use of ultrasound with mammography; Calcification in the breast.