Womens Imaging: Page 102

Visbion offers new service for mobile breast screening

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

PACS vendor Visbion has announced a new online connectivity service for mobile breast screening in the U.K.

October 4, 2015

Novel breast MRI technique could reduce biopsy rate

By Wayne Forrest

A shorter noncontrast-enhanced breast MRI protocol might help reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies by gathering additional information about suspicious lesions found on screening mammography while cutting scanning times, according to a new study published online September 29 in Radiology.

September 30, 2015

AuntMinnieEurope.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Rebekah Moan

September 28, 2015

MRI plus mammo still reigns supreme in sensitivity test

By Rebekah Moan

MRI plus mammography has higher sensitivity than digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) plus mammography, according to an article published in European Radiology. However, DBT still performs better than mammography alone and has a higher positive predictive value than MRI.

September 28, 2015

Use of chaperones can help in intimate exams

By Philip Ward

For anybody with a fear of conducting intimate patient examinations, help is at hand. The U.K. Royal College of Radiologists has published a special free document that includes practical guidance on the use of chaperones and other hot topics.

September 22, 2015

Report: High rate of advanced breast cancer in Africa

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A new report has found that a large majority of women with breast cancer in two countries in sub-Saharan Africa have the disease at an advanced stage.

September 20, 2015

IMS targets tomo biopsy with launch of Giotto Class

By Brian Casey

Italian women's imaging vendor Internazional Medica Scientifica (IMS) has released a new flagship mammography system, called Giotto Class. The new system supports digital breast tomosynthesis and has begun shipping.

September 15, 2015

U.K. radiographers say no to ob/gyn assistant practitioners

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Mindful of the growing shortage of obstetric sonographers, the U.K. Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR) said it nevertheless opposes any effort to incorporate assistant practitioners into the field for assessing fetal growth and weight, saying the complex tasks involved fall "outside APs' scope of practice."

September 10, 2015

Breast cancer on rise in low-income countries

By Kate Madden Yee

Low- and middle-income countries are seeing a rise in breast cancer incidence and death rates, despite the fact that death rates have decreased in higher-income countries, where incidence rates have increased or stabilized, according to a new study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

September 9, 2015

PET/MRI matches PET/CT for recurrent pelvic cancer

By Wayne Forrest

PET/MRI can provide high diagnostic performance for restaging gynecological cancer patients compared with FDG-PET/CT, with only slightly longer scan time and "markedly reduced" radiation exposure, according to a German study published online in the European Journal of Radiology.

September 7, 2015

Photoacoustics shows clinical potential in breast cancer

By Jude Dineley

Ultrasound and x-ray mammography have several limitations for the detection and monitoring of breast cancer, including high false-positive rates and exposure to ionizing radiation, and this has motivated research into alternatives such as photoacoustic imaging.

September 3, 2015

Effects of false-positive mammograms can persist

By Kate Madden Yee

Women who receive false-positive mammograms are twice as likely to experience long-term unpleasant psychosocial consequences than women with negative exams, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

August 27, 2015

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