Womens Imaging: Page 401

USPSTF names new leadership
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has changed its top leadership, with new physicians with backgrounds in family medicine, pediatrics, and geriatrics taking over the chair and co-vice chair positions.
March 13, 2011
Outgoing USPSTF chair defends 2009 screening guidelines
By Kate Madden Yee
LAS VEGAS - The outgoing chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) defended the group's controversial 2009 revision of mammography screening guidelines in a speech at this week's National Consortium of Breast Centers annual meeting.
March 13, 2011
APBI causes less fatigue for breast cancer patients
By Cynthia E. Keen
An analysis comparing fatigue levels experienced by women who received conventional radiation therapy, hypofractionated radiation therapy, and accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI), published online March 1 in Cancer, revealed the winner from a patient's perspective to be APBI treatment.
March 13, 2011
Breast MRI benefits from CAD for distant metastasis
By Wayne Forrest
Semiautomatic analysis of breast MRI using computer-aided detection (CAD) can provide quantitative data to predict the occurrence of distant metastasis in primary breast cancer, according to a study presented at the 2011 European Congress of Radiology in Vienna.
March 13, 2011
Combo therapy beats lumpectomy alone for DCIS patients
By Kate Madden Yee
Adding radiation therapy and chemotherapy to lumpectomy for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is more effective in reducing cancer recurrence in the ipsilateral breast than lumpectomy alone, according to a study published online March 11 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
March 10, 2011
FDA issues warning on Calif. mammo center
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning regarding quality issues in mammograms taken at an imaging center in Huntington Park, CA.
March 10, 2011
DBT offers potential for super-resolution imaging
By Tami Freeman
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is an emerging imaging modality in which tomographic images of the breast are generated from multiple 2D x-ray projection images. But DBT can deliver much more -- it also offers the potential for super-resolution (subpixel) imaging.
March 9, 2011
2011 03 09 16 21 27 776 Dbt Spie Thumb
Siemens touts breast cancer screening survey
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare said it presented data from an international survey about breast cancer screening knowledge at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna.
March 7, 2011
UnitedHealthcare clarifies breast screening coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
UnitedHealthcare has issued a clarification of its breast screening and imaging coverage policies, according to an update published March 3 by the insurance giant.
March 7, 2011
Swedish krona affects Sectra's Q3
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The performance of the Swedish krona negatively affected the earnings of PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra in its third fiscal quarter of 2011.
March 7, 2011
PEM tops whole-body PET for assessing extent of cancer
By Kate Madden Yee
Positron emission mammography (PEM) is more sensitive than whole-body PET or whole-body PET/CT for assessing local extent of breast cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers at the American College of Radiology Imaging Network.
March 7, 2011
Dutch study finds few medicolegal claims from mammo screening
By Erik L. Ridley
VIENNA - While a 10-year review at a Netherlands breast cancer screening program discovered only three medicolegal cases stemming from screening mammography, it also identified opportunities for improvement, according to a study presented Monday at the European Congress of Radiology.
March 6, 2011
Previous Page
Page 401 of 694
Next Page