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New x-ray machine for breast cancer patients
A new x-ray machine to help breast cancer patients has been unveiled at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
The Faxitron Biovision x-ray machine was funded by the Trust’s charity, Blue Skies Hospitals Fund, and the Hint of Pink breast cancer charity run.
Currently, there is a 30 to 45 minute delay in mammography for the machine to be available and for constant radiologist to view and report the images to the surgeon. The delay can be completed avoided with the new machine.
Advantages of the £61,722 machine include being able to x-ray larger tissue samples of the breast as opposed to smaller samples of tissue. The machine can be used to x-ray samples from other areas of the body so it can be used in other areas of the hospital as well, and it saves theatre time for cancer patients - giving them faster access to theatre slots.
Debasish Debnath, a consultant breast and oncoplastic surgeon at the Breast Care Centre for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “This will be a service improvement for breast cancer patients as well as other breast conditions requiring x-ray examination of excised tissue in theatre.
“The machine will provide instant confirmation of a successful biopsy or excision procedure, reduction of anaesthetic time and a reduction in avoidable re-operation which will save theatre time and result in improved capacity.”
Pauline Traynor, lead mammographer for the Trust, said: “When patients come in for breast surgery sometimes we have to take a small sample, which needs x-ray confirmation using a mammography machine.
“At the moment the sample is taken in the operating theatre and then it has to go to another area for analysis. The new machine is portable and we will have it in the operating theatre. We can get an instant result and patients don’t have to be under anaesthetic for a long time.”
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