Jamaica Cancer Society expects big savings from new mammography machine (Source: The Jamaica Observer)

THE Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) says the recently purchased mammography machine will save it approximately $2 million per year in providing mammograms at its clinic.

Executive director of the JCS Yulit Gordon said the General Electric Healthcare Alpha RT Mammography Unit and the Konica Minolta Nano A Class Mammography Computed Radiography machines cost the society $16 million and is expected to reduce expenditure because it does not require the use of chemicals that the organisation would usually purchase. (Read More)