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By PETER FAKOURY
nm-DoMcntf Special Writer
For hundreds if not thousands of years artists have found beauty in the tender, pose of a woman holding a baby to her breast. From the Madonna and child frescos that adorn the cathedrals of Italy to the maternal paintings of American artist Mary Cassatt, the mother-and-baby is immortalized in hundreds of masterpieces.
It is a strange irony that the part of a woman's body that brings life to a baby, the breast, can bring death to her. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death among women today. From a tiny pinhead-sized mass it often spreads throughout the body with frightening speed.
"They say the number-one risk factor for breast cancer is being a woman," said Dr. Linda Daniel, a radiologist at Fauquier Hospital. "As a woman, it's something very personal for me.”
Dr. Daniel spends much of her work day searching out this insidious disease, carefully poring over radiographic images of the breast called mammograms. To the untrained eye a mammogram looks like a blotchy mix of light and shadow. Years of experience and training have taught Dr. Daniel to discover tiny clues indicating the presence of breast cancer.
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