What percentage of tissue removed during mastectomy is mentioned?

Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Revolutionizing Women's Health: The Future of QT Imaging

30 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A short interview excerpt (from a YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD) discussing QT imaging — described as a high-resolution ultrasound technique promoted to reduce radiation exposure in women's imaging. The speaker praises an entrepreneur and former breast surgeon who advocates for adopting QT imaging. The excerpt also notes screening challenges after mastectomy/implant patients and gives an approximate figure that ~94–96% of tissue may be removed during mastectomy, which still leaves residual tissue that can develop cancer.

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About 94–96% (speaker's approximate figure).

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She's leading the charge to change to something called QT imaging, which is a high resolution ultrasound technique that gives better imaging. And I feel like that's. That's the future of imaging. And our country's so big, you know, sometimes I wish our country was smaller. It'd be a lot easier to do things. But so that's. She's an incredible entrepreneur and advocate for women's health. Former breast surgeon, really, that's her whole mission in life, is to get that imaging on board to reduce exposure to radiation from all the other imaging techniques. And so that's probably overdue in terms of adding that next layer. But it's not obviously easy to do any of this. And we still have to screen patients who have had breast cancer, had mastectomies, and have implants. And because about, we'll say 94 to 96% of the tissue is removed, that could cause a cancer, but obviously that leaves some there. And so many times they're still getting mammograms for that. For the very reason you're describing, because it's rare, but it can happen and be missed, right? Absolutely. Absolutely.