Otis W. Brawley, MD, chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, weighed the pros and cons of risk-based mammography screening in an editorial published May 1 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The editorial coincided with the publication of two studies examining risk-based screening for women ages 40 to 49.
The first 20 years of the Dutch population-based mammography breast cancer screening program have contributed to a drop in deaths from the disease while limiting screening harms such as false positives and overdiagnosis, according to study results reported at the Eighth European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-8) in Vienna.
The Pink Lotus Breast Center, a breast center focused on the prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, has unveiled GE Healthcare's SenoBright, contrast-enhanced spectral mammography (CESM) technology at its flagship breast center in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Although most of the European women’s health imaging system market will decline over the next five years, overall revenues will increase slightly as a result of growth in the breast imaging system segment, due to the introduction and adoption of more expensive and innovative systems, according to Millennium Research Group.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s (USPSTF) 2009 recommendation against routine breast cancer screening for women younger than age 50 continues to make waves. Recent research has shown that fewer women need undergo clinical screening to save a life than estimated by USPSTF’s analysis, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Disagreement over management of four high-risk breast lesions—lobular neoplasia, benign papilloma, radial scar and flat epithelial atypia—demonstrate the need for a prospective trial as current recommendations are not well substantiated, according to an article published in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, increasing age was associated with a higher risk of death from breast cancer regardless of competing mortality and independent of tumor and treatment characteristics, according to a study in the Feb. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Approximately 14 percent of high-risk women completed recommended breast MRI screening at Invision Sally Jobe Breast Centers within one year after the clinic implemented risk assessments and informed primary care providers that high-risk women should undergo breast MRI, according to a study published in the January issue of Academic Radiology.
The Utah State Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Jan. 31 approved legislation encouraging facilities to notify women of their breast density status. The legislation will be sent to the state Senate for consideration.
Concerns that surgical breast biopsies, as opposed to percutaneous core needle biopsies, were being overused may be unfounded as the true surgical breast biopsy rate is likely somewhere between 2 percent and 18 percent, which is close to the recommended rate, according to a study published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, a national fundraiser for breast cancer research, has said it will halt all partnerships with Planned Parenthood, a move that will cut funding for breast cancer screenings and prevention.
The malignancy rate for MR-detected breast masses less than or equal to 5 mm has been shown to be greater than 20 percent, indicating that these small masses should be viewed with a high degree of suspicion when seen in staging breast MRI exams, according to a study published in the January issue of Academic Radiology.
Capital Health, a hospital network based in New Jersey, has inked a contract with GE Healthcare to install GE's Discovery NM 750b at Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell in Pennington, N.J.
Milwaukee-based Herzing University has acquired the Medical Technology Management Institute, which provides continuing education for radiologic technologists and diagnostic medical physicists.
Women with two types of high-risk lesions (papilloma and radial scar) with normal MRI results can avoid surgical excision and instead undergo clinical and imaging follow-up, according to a prospective study published in the February issue of American Journal of Roentgenology.
Female radiologists, particularly those in leadership roles, remain relatively rare, particularly compared with other specialties. A quarterly Masters of Radiology Panel Discussion published in the January issue of American Journal of Roentgenology surveyed leaders about strategies to encourage more women to enter the radiology field and pursue leadership roles. The answers were varied and identified the lack of a quick fix.
University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has installed a PET scanner, the breast application for which is positron emission mammography (PEM), which will be used both for clinical patients as well as for research focused on lowering radiation dose and novel radiotracers.
CHICAGO—18F-FLT PET presented much higher specificity than 18F-FDG PET for detecting uterine malignant tumor, and FLT PET correlated to cell proliferation better than FDG PET, based on a small Japanese study presented Nov. 29 at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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).
Breast imaging reports generated using speech recognition were eight times as likely as reports dictated with conventional transcription to contain major errors, according to a study published in the October issue of American Journal of Roentgenology. The researchers estimated that nearly 25 percent of the reports in the study contained a major error that could have affected understanding of the report or altered patient care.
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