Russell Medical Center (RMC) is distinguished as the first facility in Alabama and the second in the Southeast to offer the GE Senographe 200D full-field digital mammography system. Digital mammography uses less radiation than traditional film mammography, reducing your lifetime exposure to x-rays. Plus, digital mammography takes faster and more precise images so that potentially cancerous lumps can be properly diagnosed and treated. A study by the national Cancer Institute concluded that digital mammography is more accurate than film at finding cancer in women less than 50 years old, and in women who have dense (not fatty) breast tissue.