Womens Imaging: Page 143

Sectra, Philips complete mammo sale

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra has completed the sale of its mammography business to Royal Philips Electronics, parent company of Philips Healthcare.

August 31, 2011

MeVis reports drop in sales in first half of 2011

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Increasing saturation in the U.S. digital mammography equipment market and a decline in its breast MRI business had a negative effect on second quarter sales in 2011 for medical imaging software developer MeVis Medical Solutions.

August 30, 2011

New breast cancer gene may help predict risk

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening for mutations in a gene known as CHEK2 may help determine a woman's odds of breast cancer if the disease runs in her family, Polish scientists suggested Monday.

August 29, 2011

Breast IORT doesn't change pain levels

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Women with breast cancer whose treatment includes radiotherapy may experience persistent pain. Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) treatment does not seem to either increase or decrease this risk, according to a study published online on 23 August in the journal Breast.

August 25, 2011

Ovarian cysts may not lead to cancer: study

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Finding ovarian cysts on an ultrasound scan isn't a cancer sentence for women who are middle-aged and older, a new U.K. screening study suggests. Women with so-called "inclusion cysts" weren't at higher risk for ovarian cancer or, for that matter, breast or endometrial tumors, researchers found.

August 24, 2011

MRI dominates in imaging of breast implants

By Philip Ward

MRI now has a pre-eminent role in detecting breast implant failures and illustrating the spectrum of appearances of normal silicone gel implants and of implant ruptures. It is more accurate than ultrasound and mammography for assessing implant integrity, according to Spanish researchers.

August 23, 2011

Uterine fibroid embolization does not alter onset of menopause

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For women younger than age 45, uterine fibroid embolization doesn't advance the onset of menopause, Italian researchers reported in a study published online July 29 in Fertility and Sterility.

August 15, 2011

BI-RADS MR mammography accurately determines malignancy

By Rebekah Moan

A BI-RADS-associated MR mammography algorithm can accurately diagnose breast tumors, German researchers found. However, due to false-negative and false-positive MR mammography results, histology is still necessary.

August 14, 2011

Heart disease risk greater for certain breast cancer patients

By Cynthia E. Keen

Women in Denmark and Sweden who received radiotherapy treatments for breast cancer over a 30-year period had a higher risk of developing ischemic heart disease, pericarditis, and valvular disease compared with those who did not, according to a study of more than 72,100 female breast cancer patients.

August 8, 2011

Scottish government to review breast screening program

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The Scottish government plans to review the country's breast cancer screening service for the first time since it was set up in 1989.

August 4, 2011

Debate over breast screening to intensify after new BMJ study

By Philip Ward

A research paper published on Thursday by the British Medical Journal has cast fresh doubt on the value of breast screening by suggesting that declining mortality rates are due more to improvements in treatment and the efficiency of healthcare systems than mammography screening.

July 27, 2011

5-day brachytherapy proves effective for endometrial cancer

By Cynthia E. Keen

Four-year results of a clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of a five-day high-dose-rate brachytherapy treatment for endometrial cancer are proving comparable to more protracted courses of treatment, according to a study by Spanish researchers.

July 20, 2011

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