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Mammo screening reduces death rate in medium-risk women
By Kate Madden Yee
Yearly mammography in women in their 40s with a medium familial risk of breast cancer can reduce the mortality rate by almost 30%, according to new research published online November 18 in Lancet.
November 18, 2010
Ga. RT enters not guilty plea
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A radiologic technologist (RT) in Georgia accused of submitting false mammogram results entered a plea of not guilty in a hearing on November 17.
November 18, 2010
Preoperative MRI predicts upgrade of DCIS to invasive breast cancer
By Eric Barnes
Tuesday, November 30 | 3:50 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | SSJ01-06 | Room E352MRI of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) can help determine which lesions are likely to upgrade to invasive cancers, researchers from New York University Medical Center in New York City will report in this Tuesday afternoon presentation.
November 18, 2010
Breast biopsies successful with integrated 3D digital breast tomosynthesis
By Eric Barnes
Tuesday, November 30 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m.| SSJ01-01 | Room E352French researchers using 3D digital breast tomosynthesis are finding lesions that can't be visualized on conventional 2D mammography, and by integrating a tomosynthesis biopsy unit, they say they can biopsy and analyze a broader range of breast lesions compared with 2D digital mammography.
November 18, 2010
FDA clears Volpara breast density software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Volpara breast density software from Volpara, Ltd., a subsidiary of Matakina Technology.
November 17, 2010
FDA's revision of FFDM rules may break market logjam
By James Brice
Breast imaging providers in the U.S. may soon witness a surge of new full-field digital mammography (FFDM) products on the market, thanks to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's November 4 decision to ease its rules for approval of FFDM technology.
November 17, 2010
DISC launches QA Mamchex for Carestream
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiography quality control technology developer Diagnostic Imaging Specialists (DISC) has launched its DISC QA Mamchex tool for use with Carestream Health's DirectView computed radiography mammography system.
November 17, 2010
Siemens gets PMA for FFDM unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration premarket approval (PMA) for its Mammomat Inspiration full-field digital mammography (FFDM) system.
November 17, 2010
Three Palm to debut workstation upgrades at RSNA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast imaging software developer Three Palm Software plans to highlight upgrades to its WorkstationOne mammography reading software at this year's RSNA meeting in Chicago.
November 17, 2010
Data mining with natural language processing identifies mammo trends
By Cynthia E. Keen
Thursday, December 2 | 11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SSQ10-09 | Room S402ABResearchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston will present their findings of a study on clinical data mining with natural language processing to identify the most common breast pathologies and their notation in nearly 75,000 mammography reports.
November 17, 2010
Low radiation risk from mammo screening
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The risk of getting breast cancer from mammography screening radiation is small compared to the benefits of the exam, and women should not be deterred from getting annual screening by fears of radiation exposure, according to a new study published online November 16 in Radiology.
November 16, 2010
Breast MRI improves survival rates for at-risk women
By Kate Madden Yee
Breast MRI's sensitivity is superior to that of mammography in long-term screening for women at risk of breast cancer, according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. What's more, the study showed that breast MRI improved survival rates by almost 20% when compared to women tracked in earlier research.
November 16, 2010
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