Breast: Page 363

Can DBT unseat MRI for screening high-risk women?
By Kate Madden Yee
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has the potential to be a useful tool for screening women with dense breasts. But the fact that it adds more radiation exposure is problematic, especially when compared to MRI, according to a speaker at this week's National Consortium of Breast Centers conference in Las Vegas.
March 21, 2010
MRI finds undetected tumors in second breast of older women
By Wayne Forrest
Postmenopausal women who have been newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast have higher cancer detection rates when the other breast is scanned for tumors with MRI compared to premenopausal women, according to a new study in the Breast Journal.
March 16, 2010
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Cryotherapy successfully freezes breast cancer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Using image-guided multiprobe cryotherapy, researchers in Detroit have successfully frozen breast cancer in patients who refused surgery, and, as a result, the women did not have to undergo surgery after treatment to ensure that the tumors had been killed.
March 15, 2010
Costs deflate Sectra's Q3 profit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Increased costs on the development of new radiological IT systems cut into the profit margin of Swedish PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra in its third fiscal quarter of 2010.
March 15, 2010
Orbital Therapy finishes prototype
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast cancer treatment products developer Orbital Therapy said it has built a proof-of-concept prototype for breast cancer irradiation, demonstrating the feasibility of operating an external-beam radiotherapy device without the use of a shielded bunker infrastructure.
March 15, 2010
Study: Less breast screening leads to more palpable cancers
By Kate Madden Yee
Women who present with palpable breast tumors tend to be those who don't undergo annual screening mammograms, according to a new study. And these palpable tumors are larger and at more advanced stages of disease when they are discovered.
March 15, 2010
House bill would bar use of USPSTF guidelines to deny coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A New Jersey representative has introduced legislation to the U.S. House of Representatives that would ensure preventive services, such as mammograms, could not be denied coverage for service by a group health plan or health insurance issuer as a result of federal guidelines.
March 10, 2010
Carestream passes mammo test
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health's computer radiography (CR)-based mammography imaging systems and multimodality breast imaging workstation have passed Mammography Image Integration Profile testing conducted by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International at its recent North America Connectathon in Chicago.
March 9, 2010
TechniScan begins phase II warm bath US study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast ultrasound imaging developer TechniScan has begun phase II of its grant study for its warm bath ultrasound system at the University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
March 8, 2010
Hologic debuts upright biopsy at ECR
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
VIENNA - A new digital upright biopsy system, called Affirm, was among the new product launches at this week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting in Vienna by women's imaging vendor Hologic of Bedford, MA.
March 7, 2010
Organ-based tube-current modulation cuts breast dose
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Radiation doses to the breast can be cut by nearly 40% using a new organ-based dose modulation technique in combination with a noise-optimized image reconstruction method. The two techniques must be used together if the resulting images are to remain readable, researchers reported.
March 7, 2010
Breast MRI CAD yields high sensitivity, specificity
By Erik L. Ridley
VIENNA - Breast MRI computer-aided detection (CAD) technology can effectively distinguish between benign and malignant lesions, according to research from Germany presented at the 2010 European Congress of Radiology.
March 7, 2010
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