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Are women ignoring USPSTF's breast screening advice?
By Brian Casey
Younger women in the U.S. apparently haven't heeded recent advice on mammography screening by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). A study published April 19 in Cancer found that screening rates have remained steady for women ages 40 to 49 after the USPSTF's 2009 guideline change.
April 18, 2013
ARRS: Breast tomo increases cancer detection by 11%
By Cynthia E. Keen
The addition of digital breast tomosynthesis to a screening mammogram increased the rate of breast cancer detection by 11%, according to one of several studies on 3D mammography presented this week at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Washington, DC.
April 18, 2013
ARRS: Breast US spots missed cancers in dense breasts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Performing screening breast ultrasound after mammography on women with greater than 50% breast density can detect an additional 3.4 cancers or high-risk lesions per 1,000 women screened, according to a large study presented this week at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) meeting in Washington, DC.
April 17, 2013
New firm MDH offers breast readings, mobile biopsy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new imaging services company, MDH Radiology, has been launched to provide remote and subspecialized breast imaging reading, as well as mobile breast biopsy services, the company said.
April 16, 2013
Breast CAD's effectiveness questioned again in new study
By Kate Madden Yee
Dr. Joshua Fenton of the University of California, Davis has emerged as one of the most prominent skeptics of computer-aided detection (CAD) technology for breast screening. Fenton is again questioning CAD's effectiveness in a new study published online April 15 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
April 14, 2013
Mammo expert Tabár releases breast health book in 3D format
By Kate Madden Yee
To bridge the gap between clinicians and to educate women directly, Dr. László Tabár of Falun Central Hospital in Sweden and colleagues have released a new breast health book that includes 3D stereoscopic thick-section histology images for a better understanding of breast morphology.
April 10, 2013
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AHRA backs Are You Dense Advocacy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The board of directors at AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management has endorsed the Are You Dense Advocacy organization and its efforts to standardize the communication of dense breast tissue to women.
April 9, 2013
Matakina adds install, new upgrade
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast density software developer Matakina International has installed its Volpara breast density measurement software at Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital in New York City.
April 9, 2013
PET/CT predicts early breast cancer response to chemo
By Wayne Forrest
By using FDG-PET/CT, physicians will be in a better position to noninvasively predict a breast cancer patient's response to treatment after two cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, helping them decide on the next course of action, concluded a study from Germany.
April 9, 2013
Quality measure boosts shear-wave elastography performance
By Erik L. Ridley
NEW YORK CITY - The sensitivity of shear-wave breast elastography can be significantly improved by a quality measure that grades the adequacy of the shear wave itself, according to research presented at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine annual meeting.
April 8, 2013
SBI: Breast imaging in an era of healthcare reform
By Kate Madden Yee
In a time of rapid healthcare change, there's good news and bad news for breast imagers, according to a presentation today at the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) postgraduate course. The good news is breast imaging has a solid infrastructure and demonstrated success. The bad news? Costs are rising and reimbursement is falling.
April 8, 2013
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SBI: Is breast cancer overdiagnosis a myth?
By Kate Madden Yee
The rate of breast cancer overdiagnosis is much lower than the 30% cited by some research -- making its "harms" more myth than reality, according to an April 8 presentation at the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) postgraduate course in Los Angeles.
April 7, 2013
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