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Hologic nets Novation contract

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Women's imaging vendor Hologic reported that it has been awarded two three-year dual-source contracts with Novation, the group purchasing organization that supplies VHA and University HealthSystem Consortium.

August 18, 2005

Male mammograms: Positioning tips to ensure image quality

Each year approximately 215,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer; 1,450 will be men -- 450 of whom will die from the disease. Male patients are enough of a presence that most facilities should consider taking action to ensure that they are comfortable and that image quality is high.

August 17, 2005

FDG-PET predicts early response to chemo in metastatic breast lesions

By Shalmali Pal

Properly identifying tumor response in the early treatment stages is vital, either to determine if additional courses of therapy are needed or if treatment should be discontinued. A group of gynecologists and radiologists have proposed using sequential F-18 FDG-PET for the early prediction of chemotherapy response, and hypothesized that changes in the pattern of FDG uptake would correlate with overall survival rates.

August 16, 2005

Breast cancer detected with screening mammo yields better prognosis

By Shalmali Pal

Finally, some good news for breast imagers -- breast cancer screening with mammography does offer a significant survival benefit in comparison to other cancer detection methods, according to an August 17 report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. In addition, this benefit exists in spite of two types of bias -- lead time and length -- that can skew detection data.

August 15, 2005

Fischer shows Q2 slump

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Women's imaging vendor Fischer Imaging of Denver reported fiscal 2005 second-quarter revenues of $11.2 million, down from $19.8 million posted in the same period last year.

August 15, 2005

Sectra inks Turkish distribution deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Swedish medical imaging and informatics vendor Sectra of Linköping has signed a partnership agreement with Kurt & Kurt, a Turkish medical distribution company.

August 15, 2005