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or so is designing new methods for cancer diagnosis.
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We've talked about some of these as we've gone through the course
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and I just want to highlight them here.
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We talked about X-rays and
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using X-ray radiation to look inside the body.
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Mammography is a special kind of X-ray imaging
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that's used to look just at the breasts
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to see if there are abnormal tissues within the breast.
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This shows a normal mammogram
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and this shows a mammogram
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with some kind of a dense deposit here that's not normal.
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Mammography is used to screen for breast cancer