HOUSTON – Breast cancer runs in Tracey Roloff's family.
"My grandmother, mother and sister have all been diagnosed," Roloff said.
When Roloff was diagnosed in May, she turned to doctors who are working with a new type of breast cancer imaging called Senobright. It's a new contrast-enhanced mammography that involves two images laid on top of each other.
"The first image is the actual mammogram and the second image is this superimposed contrast," radiologist Michael Alboucrek said.
Comparing the two images, Alboucrek can more accurately determine what might be a suspicious area and take immediate action to investigate further.
"It's an elegantly simple but remarkably useful technique," Alboucrek said.
"You just kind of sit up in a chair and they shoot the dye, and they do the test and they can read the results right there on site, so there's no waiting," Roloff said.
The process removes the waiting time for results and helps lessen patient anxiety.
Roloff's been through surgery, radiation and is now undergoing chemotherapy. She's keeping her eyes on a healthy future.
"The journey, every step of the way, I've been fortunate," she said. "We just want to be cancer-free after all this is over. That's the goal."
So far, study results have shown that Senobright imaging reduces the risk of false positives, which in turn reduces the chance of unnecessary biopsies.