An affibody which targets human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-expressing breast cancer lesions has been shown to allow early detection of HER2-positive pulmonary metastases and with more specificity than 18F-FDG, according to a study published online May 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Rates of death in the U.S. from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2004 and 2008, according to the “Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer,” published online in Cancer on March 28.
The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements convened an expert scientific committee to review and make recommendations on the association between radiotherapy (RT) and second malignant neoplasms (SMNs) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). It concluded that SMNs and CVD are among the most serious late adverse effects experienced by cancer survivors and their risks should be further evaluated, according to a summary of NCRP's recommendations published in the March 7 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The American Cancer Society, in an effort to reduce future projected cancers from diagnostic imaging procedures, outlined some limitations and enhancements to current appropriateness criteria used for making decisions about imaging and also offered some CT exam recommendations for clinicians in an article published online Feb. 3 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
The Living Lab Structural Biology Center was formed through a cooperative research and development agreement between the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Md., and FEI, in Hillsboro, Ore., a scientific instruments company, to help accelerate medical discoveries relating to global health challenges, such as cancer and HIV/AIDS. The lab will utilize near-atomic resolution microscopy and other structural biology technologies.
Four experts attempted to set straight the record on accelerated partial breast brachytherapy (APBI) after a Dec. 7 presentation by MD Anderson researchers at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, which concluded that APBI is associated with inferior effectiveness and increased toxicity compared with whole breast irradiation in older women. The researchers outlined numerous flaws ranging from the data source to study design to omitted information, during a teleconference on Dec. 13.
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Wednesday, December 14
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has named Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City as a Center for Quantitative Imaging Excellence for its research in cancer screening, treatment and follow-up care, specifically with modalities such as mammography, PET, CT and MRI.
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle have received a $7 million five-year renewal grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue research in molecular imaging of cancer and its response to therapy. This new award is funded through 2016.
CHICAGO—Errors in interpretation of ultrasound screening of breast cancer were similar in prevalence (21 percent of misses) to errors in mammographic and MRI interpretation, based on a retrospective review of the ACRIN 6666 trial, presented Nov. 27 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
ImaginAb has been awarded $2.3 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research program to help further develop diagnostic imaging agents for PET.
Over the next decade, the population of cancer survivors over 65 years of age will increase by approximately 42 percent, according to a report published in the October issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
The rates of new lung cancer cases in the U.S. dropped among men in 35 states and among women in six states between 1999 and 2008, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among women, lung cancer incidence decreased nationwide between 2006 and 2008, after increasing steadily for decades. Smoking cessation fueled the decline and other data have suggested CT screening could motivate smokers to quit.
Image-guided thermal ablation of lung malignancies is on the rise and appears to offer a safe choice for a subset of non-surgical candidates. However, additional clinical studies are needed to demonstrate the efficacy of the procedure in comparison with other treatments, according to a review article published in the September issue of Radiology.
The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) has announced the recipients of the 2011-2013 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship, which is a two-year fellowship designed to provide extensive training and experience in the fields of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging for Japanese physicians in the early stages of their careers.
Women with mammographically dense breasts not only face a higher risk of breast cancer, but their tumors also are more likely to have more aggressive characteristics than women with less dense breasts, according to a study published online July 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Most primary care physicians (PCPs) are confident in their abilities to provide cancer survivors with adequate follow-up care, an assurance in the skills of PCPs shared by less than one-fourth of oncologists, who see themselves as better-equipped to care for survivors. Meanwhile, both PCPs and oncologists order significantly more screening than professional guidelines recommend.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has been named a Center of Quantitative Imaging Excellence by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Males are significantly more likely to die from most cancers than females, a risk that mirrors a higher incidence of cancer among men, according to a study published in the August issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has chosen Washington University School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis to create an internet-accessible database for millions of cancer images. The Cancer Imaging Archive will combine tumor scans collected from various cancer research initiatives into a single searchable database accessible to both research scientists and the general public.
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have demonstrated in mice that the performance of a novel biomarker-development pipeline using targeted mass spectrometry is robust enough to support the use of an analogous approach in humans, based on findings by principal investigator Amanda Paulovich, MD, PhD, an associate member of the Hutchinson Center's clinical research division, and colleagues published in Nature Biotechnology.
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