Womens Imaging: Page 161

Caution urged on early mammography for high-risk women

By Edward Susman

Women at high risk of breast cancer should be cautious about undergoing mammography or other chest x-ray studies before the age of 30 due to the risk that radiation exposure might trigger cancer, according to research presented at last week's RSNA meeting in Chicago.

December 10, 2009

Sequential trastuzumab does poorly in European breast cancer study

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 3 - In women with axillary node-positive breast cancer, giving trastuzumab after the end of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation did not significantly reduce their risk of relapse, European researchers report online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

December 2, 2009

Matrox partners with Fuji Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Display controller board provider Matrox Graphics has announced that Fujifilm Europe is shipping the Matrox Xenia Series display controller boards in several of its PACS and mammography systems using Fujifilm Synapse.

December 1, 2009

Sectra signs medical distributor in Spain

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra has announced completion of a partnership agreement with the Fundación García Muñoz, a medical equipment supplier in Spain.

November 29, 2009

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

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