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Dr. Daniel Kopans: On the draft USPSTF breast screening guidelines
By Dr. Daniel Kopans
In this Second Opinion article, Dr. Daniel Kopans offers his perspective on the release this week of new guidelines on screening mammography from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) -- guidelines that he believes will restrict access to mammography.
April 20, 2015
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ARRS: Most surgeons disregard USPSTF breast guidelines
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Most surgeons continue to recommend that average-risk women older than 40 receive annual mammography screening, despite the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation dictating otherwise, according to a study presented at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Toronto.
April 20, 2015
Viztek to launch mammo viewer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Viztek will introduce its Exa Mammo viewer software at the Society of Breast Imaging/American College of Radiology 2015 Breast Imaging Symposium being held April 25-28 in Orlando, FL.
April 19, 2015
USPSTF rejects expanded breast screening guidelines
By Brian Casey
In a move that is already drawing fire from breast screening proponents, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on Monday declined to expand its recommendation on which women should receive regular mammography screening, instead issuing a draft of new breast screening guidelines that largely hew to its more conservative guidance from 2009.
April 19, 2015
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ARRS: Debate rages over Canadian breast screening trial
By Kate Madden Yee
TORONTO - A controversial Canadian study on screening mammography was the subject of a spirited debate on April 19 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting. The discussion included two researchers who participated in the study and who defended its claim that screening mammography produced no major health benefit.
April 19, 2015
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AACR: U.S. breast cancer cases to increase 50% by 2030
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The number of U.S. breast cancer cases is expected to be 50% higher in 2030 than it was in 2011 -- when invasive and in situ cancers are counted together, according to a presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in Philadelphia.
April 19, 2015
AACR: Black women have denser breast tissue than white women
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Black women have greater breast tissue density than white women, according to a presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in Philadelphia.
April 19, 2015
AirXpanders completes clinical trial enrollment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
AirXpanders has completed enrollment of 150 subjects in a multicenter study of the company's AeroForm patient-controlled tissue expander.
April 16, 2015
Defining mammography skill depends on how it's measured
By Kate Madden Yee
Screening mammography's benefits have been shown in clinical trials, but the full potential of the technology depends on the interpretive skills of the individual radiologists who read the exams, according to a new study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
April 16, 2015
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Volpara hits VolparaDensity installation milestone
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast imaging software developer Volpara Solutions has hit a milestone with its VolparaDensity breast density assessment tool, having installed the system in almost three dozen countries.
April 13, 2015
ND governor signs breast density bill into law
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The governor of North Dakota has signed a breast density reporting bill into law.
April 12, 2015
CMS provides questionable coding 'advice' for DBT studies
By Donna Richmond
Revisions to 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule payment policies include a surprising billing guideline from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) related to digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). Donna Richmond from Panacea Healthcare Solutions offers some guidance.
April 12, 2015
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