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Telemammography

Telemammography plan in Brussels (Prof. A.-R. Grivegnée)
- Brussels co-ordination centre for breast cancer detection
- BRUMAMMO, ASBL,
- Jules Bordet Institute : Screening clinic and medical imaging unit/department

 

The telemammography plan in Brussels is linked with the organization of a national programme for breast cancer detection for a period of 3 years at least.

More generally, this plan falls within the general framework of the European Commission recommendations about breast cancer detection.
The breast cancer detection programme allows women between 50 and 69 of age to benefit from a mammography examination, each two years, without any personal financial intervention. The quality of this examination is technically controlled. This control is carried out through a second reading of the radiographies (obtained in first reading) by a group of specialized radiologists.

 

The telemammography plan in Brussels aims at

improving the rapidity and the quality of the second reading process through the setting up of an integrated system allowing to digitize the mammographies in the first reading centre and transmit them via Irisnet, a broad band network, to the second reading centre where they will be managed and filed.
 

The solution contemplated has the following advantages :

- standard mammographies are quickly digitized
- a quicker and more efficent processing of a great amount of mammographies
- a huge gain in terms of organization of care structures through the use of the quick long-distance transmission system.
- A solution to the problem of storage, transport and loss of the radiographies.

 

The plan allows the setting up of the mammograph digital transmission system between :

- certified and digitalized mammography unites and
- the Brussels reference centre for the second reading

(The other hospitals will continue to send the orginals of the mammographs to the second reading centre, where the radiographies will be digitized and stored on the computer system).

 

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Update of this page : 09/2009