Womens Imaging: Page 120

Notification laws may not lead to more breast screening

By Theresa Pablos

Breast density notification laws may not prompt mammography facilities to offer additional screening services. A North Carolina survey found that fewer than two-thirds of breast imaging locations offered supplemental screening for women with dense breasts, according to a September 14 study in Cancer.

September 24, 2020

Can you trust YouTube videos on mammography?

By Rebekah Moan

With more and more patients turning to digital media, particularly YouTube, for the answers to their mammography-related questions, are the videos made by knowledgeable people rising to the top? Or are they getting buried? A new study suggests the latter: Quality mammography videos are not reaching the majority of YouTube viewers.

September 23, 2020

AuntMinnie.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Theresa Pablos

September 22, 2020

Language matters when screening women with dense breasts

By Andrea Wolf

Until we change how we talk about dense breast screenings, we will not make headway in providing access to this essential test to all women with dense tissue. That's according to Andrea Wolf of the Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer.

September 22, 2020

Radiation tied to breast cancer delays for Black women

By Theresa Pablos

Black women with breast cancer may be more likely to experience treatment delays and longer treatment times than white women, according to the findings of a study published on September 21 in Cancer. This was particularly true for Black women who opted for radiation as part of their treatment.

September 20, 2020

iCAD touts ProFound AI Risk clinical data

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Computer-aided detection (CAD) software developer iCAD is highlighting research published September 8 in Radiology that attests to the ability of its ProFound AI Risk clinical decision-support software to provide accurate two-year breast cancer risk estimates.

September 16, 2020

Women with DCIS have 3x the risk of breast cancer death

By Theresa Pablos

A new study adds weight to the belief that ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a life-threatening condition. Women with DCIS had rates of death from breast cancer three times greater than the general population, according to research published on September 16 in JAMA Network Open.

September 16, 2020

GE, Candelis team up in mammography image management

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare and image software and archiving firm Candelis have teamed up to expand mammography and tomosynthesis image management capabilities for GE's Senographe Pristina mammography system.

September 14, 2020

Hologic announces $950M principal due 2029

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Hologic announced a private offering of $950 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2029.

September 13, 2020

QT Ultrasound to bring breast ultrasound system to China

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Ultrasound technology developer QT Ultrasound has partnered with Shanghai-based TCL Healthcare Equipment to bring its QTscan ultrasound breast imaging system to China.

September 9, 2020

Lunit touts AI mammography studies

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Artificial intelligence (AI) image analysis software developer Lunit is touting results from two recent studies that found its Insight MMG software was as accurate as an average radiologist at identifying breast cancer from mammograms.

September 9, 2020

Do breast screening guidelines overlook Black women?

By Theresa Pablos

Guidelines that recommend breast screening beginning at age 50 could leave Black women at a disadvantage, according to a September 4 review in the Journal of Breast Imaging. Black women were more likely to develop breast cancers in their 40s -- and to have more aggressive forms of the disease.

September 9, 2020

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