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Should Kate Winslet play Florence Stoney?
By Dr. Adrian Thomas
Dr. Florence Stoney's life story would make a great Hollywood blockbuster, particularly if Kate Winslet took the leading role, suggests our history columnist, Dr. Adrian Thomas, who describes the life and career of this remarkable woman.
November 6, 2011
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Breast tomo equal to digital spot compression
By Rebekah Moan
Digital breast tomosynthesis is equal to the diagnostic accuracy of digital spot compression, Italian researchers have found. In addition, digital breast tomosynthesis has a lower mean glandular dose and has the potential to help reduce the recall rate.
November 2, 2011
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Radiotherapy cuts breast cancer recurrence risk by up to 50%
By Rebekah Moan
After breast-conserving surgery, radiotherapy can halve the breast cancer recurrence rate and reduce breast cancer death by about a sixth, according to the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group. Additionally, the proportional benefits vary little between groups, but the absolute benefits from radiotherapy vary substantially from patient to patient.
October 31, 2011
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Latest JFR news; clinical PET/MRI; breast screening's future
By Philip Ward
October 25, 2011
U.K. conducts review of breast screening program
By Philip Ward
Fresh doubts have surfaced about the future of breast screening in the U.K. after a leading cancer specialist announced that an independent review of the National Health Service's program is under way.
October 25, 2011
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Adding optical imaging to mammography boosts accuracy
By Rebekah Moan
Mammography plus near-infrared breast imaging is slightly -- but not significantly -- more accurate than mammography alone when it comes to detecting breast lesions, German researchers found in a recent European Radiology study.
October 19, 2011
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PROCAS breast screening trial focuses on density
By Eric Barnes
An ambitious new breast screening study, the PROCAS (Predicting Risk of Cancer at Screening) trial, is aiming to not only answer important questions about breast density and cancer development but also evaluate the effectiveness of computer-aided detection in the screening of dense breasts.
October 6, 2011
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Mammo surveillance improves cancer survival
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Surveillance using mammography increases the survival chances of breast cancer patients, according to a new study.
October 2, 2011
AuntMinnieEurope.com Women's Imaging Insider
By Rebekah Moan
September 26, 2011
Speech recognition produces errors in breast reports
By Kate Madden Yee
Breast imaging reports generated with automated speech recognition software are eight times more likely to contain major errors than those generated with conventional dictation transcription, and radiologists must be alert to this potential problem, according to new peer-reviewed research.
September 26, 2011
New innovations give added impetus to breast ultrasound
By Mélisande Rouger, Rebekah Moan
When it comes to breast ultrasound, combining B-mode, Doppler techniques, and elastography can help improve true-positive and true-negative diagnosis results by reducing the operator's influence on the outcome, according to an Austrian expert.
September 26, 2011
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Study: Speech recognition produces errors in breast reports
By Kate Madden Yee
Breast imaging reports generated with automated speech recognition software are eight times more likely to contain major errors than those generated with conventional dictation transcription, according to a new study in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
September 26, 2011
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