Mammography is the gold standard to detect breast cancer at an early stage and,
when followed up with appropriate diagnosis and treatment,
reduces mortality from breast cancer.
However,
as a diagnostic method,
it presents problems inherent to image quality,
perhaps greater than those of other radiological technologies,
if it is expected to fulfill its purpose properly.
This is a study that delivers doses of the order of 4.5 mGy in digital equipment and that many women repeat annually.
The positioning,
the compression during the study and the particularly kind attention towards the patient are other elements that take relevance during this study.
All these circumstances imply a careful work of the personnel of the Mammography Service,
where at the same time quality in the treatment,
in the technique and in the image is looked for.
During 2001,
at the conference in Malaga,
a serious abordage on one of the biggest cause of the failures in Radiation Protection of the patient,
the public and the worker,
namely the culture of safety was attended.
During a new meeting in the city of Bonn,
Germany,
in 2012,
10 priority elements identified as actions were identified for the improvement of Radiation Protection in Medicine (RPM) and were endorsed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
This fact was known as Bonn calls for action [1].
Among the actions enounced the most directly linked to mammography were:
Action 2.
Enhance the implementation of the principle of optimization of protection and safety
Action 4.
Strengthen radiation protection education and training of health professionals
Action 8.
Strengthen radiation safety culture in health care
Action 9. Foster an improved radiation benefit-risk-dialogue
In turn,
a new Call to Action 2018 this time enounced by EuroSafe Imaging based on the first Call to Action issued in 2014 reforced the Bonn Call to Action.
By implementing 13 actions,
EuroSafe Imaging in turn contributed significantly to the achievement of the objectives in the quality and radiation protection.