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Optical sensor tracks radiotherapy treatment site breast motion

By Paula Gould

Postsurgical radiotherapy is an effective way of preventing breast tumors from reappearing, but the downside is the mismatch between ideal treatment plans and the doses actually delivered. Although conformal methods of delivery could address this issue, switching delivery techniques raises another potential problem: Will breast motion compromise the accuracy of a highly targeted radiotherapy regimen?

November 25, 2009

Better prognosis seen with tubular breast cancer versus grade 1 ductal cancer

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 24 - New research confirms that tubular carcinoma of the breast has an excellent prognosis and goes on to show that outcomes are better than with grade 1 ductal carcinomas.

November 23, 2009

Sectra adds FFDM orders

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra has received full-field digital mammography (FFDM) orders from three hospitals in Luxembourg.

November 22, 2009

Automated segmentation could improve fetal heart echo

By Eric Barnes

A new method of segmenting the fetal heart with echocardiography could improve the evaluation of congenital heart defects compared to the time-consuming manual segmentation in use today, according to researchers from the U.K.

November 5, 2009

Specialized RT unnecessary for some breast cancer patients

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

CHICAGO - Breast cancer patients who receive radiation treatment to the lymph nodes located behind the breast bone do not have better survival outcomes than patients who don't receive radiation in this difficult-to-treat area.

November 1, 2009

Sectra installs mammo units in Norway

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra has installed three Sectra MicroDose Mammography full-field digital mammography units at a Norwegian imaging services provider.

November 1, 2009

Merge and Medrad extend European reach

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Healthcare IT and advanced visualization developer Merge Healthcare and contrast injector technology firm Medrad have announced an expansion in the distribution of CADstream, Merge's dedicated MRI CAD software, into the European market.

October 29, 2009

Ignoring breast CAD detections cuts sensitivity

By Eric Barnes

Computer-aided detection (CAD) is effective at finding breast cancers -- including lesions that would have otherwise been missed by experienced radiologists. Unfortunately, CAD's overall benefit is diluted by the downside of radiologists ignoring true-positive CAD marks.

October 22, 2009

RT linked to hypothyroidism after breast cancer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Norwegian women who were treated with radiation therapy for stage II/III breast cancer had rates of thyroid disease as much as 300% higher than normal controls, according to a study published in the November issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

October 20, 2009

Siemens launches breast tomo in Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Healthcare has begun commercial shipments in Europe of a full-field digital mammography system with 3D digital breast tomosynthesis capability.

October 19, 2009

Study: Lung scintigraphy tops CTA in PE

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Lung scintigraphy may be more reliable than pulmonary CT angiography (CTA) for identifying or excluding pulmonary embolism (PE) in pregnant patients, according to a study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

October 19, 2009

Premature delivery common after cancer diagnosis

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 20 - Iatrogenic preterm delivery is common among women diagnosed with invasive cancer during pregnancy, a new multicenter study shows. The study, published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, involved 215 women who received diagnoses of invasive cancers during pregnancy between 1998 and 2008.

October 19, 2009

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