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EM Imaging signs with GE for cancer imaging agent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Edinburgh Molecular Imaging (EM Imaging) has signed a global license agreement with GE Healthcare and Dyax for an optical imaging agent that could improve the detection of early-stage colorectal cancer.
September 16, 2015
Risk score decides who gets invasive colorectal screening
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new risk assessment system could decide who needs to be screened for colorectal cancer with invasive colonoscopy versus a noninvasive test, according to a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
September 10, 2015
Optical colonoscopy misses polyps detected on CTC
By Eric Barnes
More than 20% of polyps detected at CT colonography (CTC) may be missed at subsequent optical colonoscopy, according to a study in Radiology. What's more, most of the missed polyps were large and clinically significant.
September 9, 2015
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Liver metastases tracking software shows high accuracy
By Eric Barnes
Tracking liver metastases on follow-up CT scans is a critical task for clinicians, but the process is time-consuming and often inefficient. A new automated method for detecting and segmenting liver metastases may help, according to an article published online in the Journal of Medical Imaging.
September 3, 2015
Current AAA screening strategies may miss the mark
By Erik L. Ridley
Ultrasound screening programs for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) that focus on a single round of screening for 65-year-old men will miss most acute AAAs, which occur in older men, according to a large prospective U.K. study published online in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
August 20, 2015
CT radiation dose levels in clinical trial surprise researchers
By Eric Barnes
A group of researchers studying the use of CT for kidney stones were surprised by the radiation dose levels they discovered in their multicenter clinical study. Not only were many doses too high, they also varied widely between centers, concludes a research letter published June 29 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
June 28, 2015
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Panel says elastography has value for liver fibrosis
By Erik L. Ridley
Ultrasound elastography can reliably distinguish between patients who have no or minimal fibrosis and those with severe fibrosis or cirrhosis, obviating liver biopsy in most of these cases, according to a multispecialty panel convened by the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound.
June 23, 2015
Dr. Richard Barr, PhD, from Northeastern Ohio Medical University.
MDCT: Hopes high for CTC screening reimbursement
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - The talented but long-suffering colon cancer screening exam known as CT colonography (CTC) may finally be on the cusp of screening reimbursement, though nothing is certain, according to a Monday presentation at the annual International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT (MDCT).
June 8, 2015
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ACA ups colon, breast cancer screening in newly insured
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be behind recent increases in colorectal and breast cancer screening among the lower socioeconomic groups that benefit from being insured by it and Medicare, a new study in Cancer reveals.
June 3, 2015
US surveillance of HCC subject to image quality issues
By Erik L. Ridley
Ultrasound may be the imaging modality of choice for surveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in high-risk patients, but variance in exam quality can be a big problem, according to researchers from the University of California, San Diego.
May 20, 2015
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New MRI agent enhances liver cancer detection
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Georgia researchers have developed a new class of MRI protein-based contrast agents that they believe will help detect early liver cancer and other liver diseases.
May 17, 2015
Analysis: CT lung cancer screening won't break the bank
By Eric Barnes
The costs of population-wide CT lung cancer screening are likely to be reasonable and comparable to the costs of breast or colon cancer screening, according to an article in the May edition of Thoracic Surgery Clinics.
May 14, 2015
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