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Breast IORT reported less painful than EBRT

By Cynthia E. Keen

Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) treatments produced fewer incidents of pain that were less severe than external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) treatments for breast cancer, according to women enrolled in a clinical trial comparing the two treatments. These findings were reported in the February issue of the journal Breast.

February 7, 2012

AuntMinnieEurope.com Women's Imaging Insider

By Rebekah Moan

February 6, 2012

PET aids tough breast cancer cases

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

PET imaging with FDG and a radiopharmaceutical that targets estrogen receptors can help physicians gather more information in difficult breast cancer cases, according to two studies in the February issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

February 6, 2012

In PIP implant scandal, a ragged safety net exposed

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters) - In June 2000, when American medical regulators posted a warning letter on the Internet about problems at a breast-implant maker in southern France, French authorities didn't pay much attention.

February 2, 2012

U.K. & Swedish team supports two-view breast tomosynthesis

By Rebekah Moan

Radiologists with limited experience in reading breast examinations may benefit significantly from using photon-counting tomosynthesis, leading researchers from Cambridge and Stockholm have found. In their study, two-view tomosynthesis outperformed 2D mammography for readers with the least amount of experience.

January 31, 2012

Digital breast tomo; IT success in Hamburg; Paris strives to go filmless

By Philip Ward

January 31, 2012

French breast implant boss arrested

By Reuters Health

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Jean-Claude Mas, the Frenchman who has sparked a global health scare by selling substandard breast implants, was arrested on Thursday and could be charged with manslaughter, the public prosecutor in the city of Marseille said.

January 25, 2012

Naviscan completes PET/mammo installations

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

PET developer Naviscan has installed its positron emission mammography scanner in two European healthcare facilities.

January 24, 2012

Digital mammo market could top $1.3B in 2017

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The global market for full-field digital mammography could expand at a compound annual growth rate of 8% over the next five years, according to a new report by market research firm GlobalData.

January 19, 2012

Women doctors urged to join breast screening trial

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A comment posted on the British Medical Journal (BMJ) website asserts that more randomized controlled trials are needed on breast screening and suggests that female doctors should enroll.

January 17, 2012

Debate grows over study linking HRT with breast cancer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Evidence from the Million Women Study, an analysis used to establish that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) causes breast cancer, is not definitive, according to an article published online on 16 January in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care.

January 16, 2012

Fetal MRI can complement prenatal ultrasound

By Philip Ward

MRI is proving useful in the prenatal diagnosis and evaluation of complex fetal thoracic pathologies, and is invaluable in assisting surgical planning where complicated anatomical abnormalities exist, Irish radiologists have discovered.

January 16, 2012

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