Women's Imaging
Based on a new study, the occurrence of mammography may not have an affect on the size of tumors when they're detected, but fewer screens may be linked to more lymph node positivity.
According to Lilian Wang, MD, of Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, and peers, there were no major differences in tumor size or in stage 0 or 1 disease whether women had scans every year or every 3 years.
However, those who were screened every 1.5 to 3 years, or at
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Women's Imaging News
Do Fewer Mammograms Translate to More Positive Nodes?…
Based on a new study, the occurrence of mammography may not have an affect on the size of tumors when they're detected, but fewer screens may be linked to more lymph node positivity.
According to Lilian Wang, MD, of Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, and peers, there were no major differences in tumor size or in stage 0 or 1 disease whether women had scans every year or every 3 years.
However, those who were screened every 1.5 to 3 years, or at
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Health Capsules Help Detect Breast Cancer More …
In a large screening study at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), researchers compared breast imaging results from 3-D mammography, known as digital breast tomosynthesis, to results from standard digital mammography, which is the
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Breast Cancer Diagnosis May Be Influenced by …
In a study of screening mammography-detected breast cancers, patients who had more common screening mammography had a considerably lower rate of lymph node positivity, or cancer cells in the lymph nodes, as opposed to women who went through longer
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New Breast Cancer Study Presents Results of TARGIT-A …
A new clinical trial for breast cancer, recently published in The Lancelot, demonstrates that a single fraction of targeted intraoperative radiotherapy (TARGIT) administered with the ZEISS INTRABEAM® at the time of lumpectomy is in no way
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eRAD Delivers Enhaned Mammography Module…
eRAD has recently announced the release of its new, enhanced, FDA approved mammography module with a full feature set for breast imaging and integration with eRAD PACS.
With this product, eRAD, a subsidiary of RadNet, Inc, a leading provider of
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Use of Breast MRI Increasing Among Women in the U.S.…
Based on two new studies, a growing number of American women are receiving breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a means to screen for cancer.
However, there are still some concerns that expensive MRIs are not being utilized among the numbers
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Age Affects Short-term Quality of Life Following …
Based on a new study published online in the journal Radiology, breast biopsies can negatively affect short-term quality of life with the effects being especially prominent in younger patients.
Records show that over 500,000 women in the United
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Breast Cancer RT during Surgery May Assuage Treatment…
Two recent studies reveal how a “one-stop” concentrated radiotherapy administered during lumpectomy may give some patients with early stage breast cancer a feasible option to existing treatments. Researchers say the method shows promise,
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Radiation at Surgery Equivalent to Whole-Breast RT…
Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) for early breast cancer showed noninferiority to whole-breast external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in two randomized clinical trials.Of the larger of the two trials, patients treated with IORT had at least
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Photoacoustic Mammoscope Detects Breast Cancer Using …
Regular screening can raise women’s chances of breast cancer survival by detecting the disease early and being able to treat it at such a pivotal stage. A team of Dutch researchers developed a prototype of a new imaging tool that may soon be
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Computer-Aided Image Analysis for Breast Tumor …
Researchers from the University of Chicago are developing both computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) and quantitative image analysis (QIA) methods that can be applied to mammograms, ultrasounds, and magnetic resonance images (MRIs) in order to effectively
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Optical Metabolic Imaging Identifies Breast Cancer …
Based on recent research, optical imaging technology, which measures metabolic activity in cancer cells, can precisely distinguish breast cancer subtypes and can detect responses to treatment as early as two days following therapy.
The study’s
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Heart Disease Risk Associated with Breast Radiotherapy…
Based on a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, patients who are in the early stages of breast cancer and receive radiation treatments on the left side of their body in a facing-up position were shown to be at a greater risk of contracting
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