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Speedier exam time gives digital mammography an edge over analog

By Shalmali Pal

SEATTLE - Full-field digital mammography shaves crucial minutes off exam times when compared with screen-film procedures, resulting in higher productivity for breast imagers, according to Canadian researchers at the American Roentgen Ray Society conference on Thursday.

May 3, 2001

Practice makes perfect when it comes to stereotactic breast biopsy, according to ARRS paper

By Shalmali Pal

SEATTLE - For radiologists looking to improve on their stereotactic breast biopsy skills, 15 and 20 could be the magic numbers, according to investigators from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

May 1, 2001

US compound imaging offers more breast lesion detail than traditional sonography

By Shalmali Pal

SEATTLE - If you're looking for the posterior echo patterns of breast nodules, go with pulse-inversion harmonic ultrasound. If it’s the margin and internal echotexture of the nodule that you're after, compound harmonic imaging is the better bet.

April 30, 2001

Researchers join race to develop optical breast imaging device

By Kate Madden Yee

While mammography remains the unchallenged gold standard for breast imaging, there is increasing interest in developing alternatives to x-ray-based techniques. Such technologies could provide clinical information useful for cancer screening, without mammography’s radiation exposure and breast compression.

April 26, 2001

Scantek plans European partnership

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Breast-sensor company Scantek has signed a letter of intent to form a European joint venture with Arturo Madariaga Mazzinghi, principal of Commercial Balear De Multipropiedad, of Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

April 26, 2001

Software pairs MRI and mammography to detect subtle pathology

A new image fusion method is being developed at the University of Oxford in the U.K. The technique matches dual-view mammograms with contrast-enhanced MRI images to correlate subtle pathological indicators that would otherwise be missed.

April 26, 2001

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Fischer revenues slip in first quarter

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

X-ray and mammography vendor Fischer Imaging reported first-quarter revenues of $11.2 million, down 18.2% from the $13.7 million in sales posted in 2000.

April 25, 2001

GE gets warning letter for Senographe 2000D

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Medical Systems has received a Food and Drug Administration warning letter regarding deficient procedures at the manufacturing facility in Buc, France, where the vendor's Senographe 2000D full-field digital mammography system is manufactured.

April 24, 2001

Swedish study affirms risk reduction in mammography

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A woman’s risk of dying from breast cancer has been reduced from 30% to 63% because of regular mammography screening, according to a study to be published in the May issue of Cancer.

April 23, 2001

Lesbians may be at greater risk for breast cancer

By Shalmali Pal

Lesbian and bisexual women are less likely to undergo routine breast cancer screening, in part because the healthcare system is geared towards heterosexual women, according to a study in the April American Journal of Public Health.

April 13, 2001

MRI matched with BI-RADS could increase true positive rate for breast biopsy

By Shalmali Pal

Aiming to reduce the number of false positive breast biopsies, German mammographers looked for a link between the positive predictive value of MRI characteristics and BI-RADS categories.

April 3, 2001

Grassroots groups address high breast cancer rate among immigrants

Healthcare advocacy organizations worldwide are looking for ways to address the disconnect between foreign-born women and their doctors on the issue of breast cancer. AuntMinnie.com spoke to representatives from some of these organizations about their outreach programs, both to women at risk and to the medical community.

March 29, 2001

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