Many U.S. teachers think the answer is Liberia and Burma (make that Myanmar). Let's give Liberia and Myanmar a break! All countries have adopted the metric system, including the U.S., and most countries (but not the U.S.) have taken steps to eliminate most uses of traditional measurements. However, in nearly all countries people still use traditional units sometimes, at least in colloquial expressions.
Although breast calcifications are usually noncancerous (benign), certain patterns of calcifications â such as tight clusters with irregular shapes â may indicate breast cancer. On a mammogram, breast calcifications can appear as macrocalcifications or microcalcifications. 1  Macrocalcifications. 2  These show up as large white dots or dashes. 3  They're almost always noncancerous and require no further testing or follow-up.
On 5/27/2008 greenasagourd wrote:I've always had yearly mammogram results that were normal, nothing suspicious. Microcalcifications in a cluster were found on my most recent mammogram. I was called back in a few days later for a diagnostic mammogram. The radiologist met with me, discussed the mammos & set me up for a stereotactic core needle biopsy scheduled a couple days from now. The radiologist said that his findings thus far indicate a 30% chance of breast cancer.