Breast: Page 559

Gene profiling could refine breast imaging
By Dan Krotz
A genetic test that determines whether breast cancer is hereditary may someday help radiologists determine who should receive more frequent and highly sensitive follow-up imaging procedures.
March 21, 2001
U.S. senators introduce bill to raise screening mammography payments 30%
By Brian Casey
Saying they want to head off a crisis in women's access to mammograms, two U.S. senators have introduced legislation to raise the reimbursement rate Medicare pays for screening mammography. The bill would boost payments from $69 to $90, an increase of 30%.
March 18, 2001
Fischer files PMA for SenoScan full-field digital mammography system
By Erik L. Ridley
The U.S. digital mammography market may soon gain another participant. Fischer Imaging has submitted a premarket approval (PMA) application to the Food and Drug Administration for the company's SenoScan full-field digital mammography system.
March 14, 2001
Start-up enters breast imaging arena with scintimammography, PET offerings
In light of the medical community’s interest in PET and other breast cancer imaging technologies, a new company, Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) Technologies of Bethesda, MD, has begun developing PET scanners specifically for breast imaging.
March 13, 2001
Packer retires as CTI's president/COO
Computerized Thermal Imaging president and COO David Packer is retiring.
March 11, 2001
U.S. mammography procedures grow 6% in 2000
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Mammography procedure volume in the U.S. climbed 6% in 2000, according to a report recently published by market research and consulting firm IMV Medical Information Division.
March 8, 2001
Film-screen mammography remains gold standard, IOM says
By Erik L. Ridley
New breast imaging techniques such as full-field digital mammography (FFDM) may show promise, but film-screen mammography (FSM) remains the gold standard for now, according to a report issued today by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council of the National Academies.
March 7, 2001
The American College of Radiology Statement On IOM Report on Mammography and Beyond
The American College of Radiology agrees with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) National Academy of Science’s conclusion that film mammography is still the "gold standard" for early detection of breast cancer and that new technologies also show promise.
March 7, 2001
Recommendations from the IOM’s Technologies for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer committee
March 7, 2001
Lymphatic agent set for clinical evaluation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, Cancer Center have received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to begin investigational clinical evaluation of a radiolabeled agent designed to assist in the more accurate surgical management and diagnosis of breast cancer patients.
March 7, 2001
Experimental galactoscope deemed successful in first pilot study
By Shalmali Pal
VIENNA - In their evaluation of galactoscopy, German mammographers found that this new technique can endoscopically visualize the lactiferous ducts in order to pinpoint the pathology of nipple discharge.
March 5, 2001
Breast CAD system scores high sensitivity, lower specificity
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems are getting more attention as mammographers seek fast, reliable methods of characterizing masses and microcalcifications as malignant or benign with fewer biopsies.
March 4, 2001
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