Early detection by taking the extra step of advanced ultrasound diagnostics at Health Village Imaging may have saved the lives of local identical twins Meagan McCallum of Waretown and Courtney Werner of Manahawkin. The ultrasound is enabled to detect masses that a routine mammogram could not in the dense breast tissue that is found in many women.

The twins, age 43, are in the rarest of cases due to the similarity of their breast cancer diagnoses at the same time, in the same location on their…