LONGMONT, Colo. — UCHealth said it's the first to offer a kind of mammogram in Colorado that doctors say can be a game changer when it comes to breast cancer.

Right now it’s being offered at the Longs Peak Medical Center in Longmont. Dr. Elizabeth Vorhis, a breast radiologist said she uses an IV contrast during a mammogram. It's the same kind of process if you go to the emergency room and get a stomach or chest CT scan.

But when it comes to scanning for breast cancer, this can be a big difference for women with dense tissue.

"The women that we have a hardest time finding breast cancer in mammography have dense breast tissue," Dr. Vorhis said.

That's because their mammograms have a lot of background white that can hide cancer versus the new technology on the bottom that gets rid of that

See Full Page