Womens Imaging: Page 105

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

Pelvic MRI for endometriosis can be performed anytime

By Rebekah Moan

Endometriosis patients may be assessed with pelvic MRI at any time -- even during menstruation, according to a new study in the European Journal of Radiology. The researchers found no differences in the conspicuity, size, or extent of endometriotic disease at any point in a woman's cycle.

August 23, 2015

Russia's limits on x-ray and other imports set to expand

By Timothy Spence

Russia is preparing to impose new restrictions on the purchase of imported medical equipment and supplies, adding to the limits on foreign-made x-ray machines and other devices that were enacted earlier this year. The country's safety rules also may be updated soon.

August 11, 2015

U.S. team finds favor with new breast PET unit

By Michael Reiter

A dedicated breast PET unit developed in Spain offers key advantages for breast imaging, according to a U.S. team that has been testing it. The unit offers better resolution than whole-body PET, and it may prove more useful than molecular breast imaging using technetium-99m sestamibi.

August 6, 2015

AuntMinnieEurope.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Rebekah Moan

August 5, 2015

AuntMinnieEurope.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Rebekah Moan

August 5, 2015

New light shed on triple-negative breast cancer

By Rebekah Moan

Watch out for triple-negative breast cancer as it will often demonstrate benign morphological features on ultrasound, researchers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia have found. Biopsies should still be performed unless the lesion is clearly a cyst or typical fibroadenoma, they insist.

August 5, 2015

Kalender: Tell your patients about CT's benefits, not risks

By Philip Ward

CT is thriving, and instead of informing patients about the risk of radiation-induced cancer, now's the time to emphasize the upside of undergoing an examination, according to CT pioneer Willi Kalender, PhD. Tell them CT saves lives, he said in a special lecture.

August 4, 2015

Belgian hospital reviews CT dose in pregnant patients

By Rebekah Moan

CT use in pregnant women is climbing, but are good clinical practices being followed, especially when it comes to radiation dose? The answer is mostly yes, at least at one Belgian hospital, which found that radiation dose met guidelines despite a threefold increase in scans in the last few years.

August 2, 2015

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