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Breast MRI improves cancer staging for newly diagnosed women
By Kate Madden Yee
Contrast-enhanced breast MRI finds breast lesions missed on mammography and ultrasound, and can help surgeons plan the best surgical treatment, improving patient outcomes, according to a study presented at the American Roentgen Ray Society meeting this week in San Diego.
May 2, 2010
SuperSonic touts breast ultrasound trial
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Ultrasound developer SuperSonic Imagine is highlighting results from a large multicenter trial of its shear-wave elastography system for evaluating breast lesions.
April 26, 2010
Does mammogram row signal time for policy shift?
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Apr 7 - It's not hard to find a breast cancer survivor who thinks routine mammograms are a good idea. But an increasingly heated international debate is raging about whether women are getting the right information on the merits, and risks, of mammograms.
April 6, 2010
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Authors of Nordic mammo study no strangers to controversy
By Kate Madden Yee
The debate over mammography got hotter last month with the publication of a study by Nordic researchers claiming there's no evidence that mammography screening reduces death rates. Some mammography advocates have taken issue with what they say is an antiscreening bias on the part of the research group.
April 5, 2010
U.K. study finds breast screen programs save lives
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Mar 31 - Regular mammographic screening for breast cancer saves the lives of two women for every one who is given unnecessary treatment, scientists said on Wednesday, in a study which adds to a global row over screening programs.
March 30, 2010
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Mammography advocates weigh in on Nordic study
By Kate Madden Yee
Proponents of screening mammography have been quick to criticize a study published this week by Norwegian and Danish scientists that claims there's no evidence that mammography screening for breast cancer has any effect on death rates.
March 25, 2010
Breast cancer screens don't save lives: Nordic study
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Mar 25 - Nordic scientists said on Wednesday they had found no evidence that screening women for breast cancer has any effect on death rates, adding to an already fierce international debate about routine testing.
March 24, 2010
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Closer follow-up reduces postmammography diagnosis delays
By Kate Madden Yee
For low-income women with abnormal mammograms, using a case management approach for follow-up is an effective tool that can deliver a more timely diagnostic resolution, according to a study published online March 16 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
March 21, 2010
Costs deflate Sectra's Q3 profit
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Increased costs on the development of new radiological IT systems cut into the profit margin of Swedish PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra in its third fiscal quarter of 2010.
March 15, 2010
Long-term breast cancer survival similar with SNLB and complete axillary dissection
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 12 - With small breast cancers, doing complete axillary dissections only for positive sentinel lymph node biopsies (SNLB) yields the same 10-year disease-free survival -- roughly 90% -- as doing routine complete dissections in all cases, researchers say.
March 11, 2010
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Vaginal dilation does not prevent damage from radiotherapy
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 11 - While vaginal dilation might help treat late effects of pelvic irradiation, evidence does not support routine dilation during or immediately after radiotherapy.
March 10, 2010
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Hologic debuts upright biopsy at ECR
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
VIENNA - A new digital upright biopsy system, called Affirm, was among the new product launches at this week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) meeting in Vienna by women's imaging vendor Hologic of Bedford, MA.
March 7, 2010
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