Womens Imaging: Page 167

Sectra scores Belgian digital mammo sale

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra of Linköping announced its first Belgian order for its digital mammography system.

November 27, 2007

Wine may calm inflammation in blood vessels

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 28 - Adding to evidence that a little wine can do a heart good, a new study suggests that women who drink moderate amounts may have less inflammation in their blood vessels.

November 26, 2007

US-based minimally invasive treatments prove feasible for uterine fibroids

By Shalmali Pal

When it comes to the ultrasound-based treatment of uterine fibroids, clinicians should target patients whose benign tumors are not too big or not too small, according to two new studies. Researchers from Italy found that that percutaneous sonography-guided radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA) was particularly adept at shrinking medium-sized fibroids, while a Japanese team found that MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) surgery was an optimal therapy option for fibroids with specific characteristics on preoperative imaging.

November 19, 2007

Sectra wins Danish contract

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra of Linköping has inked a deal with a Danish county for its Sectra MicroDose Mammography system, the company reported.

October 31, 2007

Three drinks a day ups breast cancer risk: study

By Reuters Health

BARCELONA (Reuters), Sep 28 - Three or more drinks a day, whether beer, wine or spirits, boost a woman's risk of breast cancer as much as smoking a pack of cigarettes, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

September 27, 2007

Simple test may help predict breast cancer return

By Reuters Health

BARCELONA (Reuters), Sep 25 - A simple test to measure tumor cells circulating in the blood could make it easier to tell which breast cancer patients are at greatest risk of their cancer returning after treatment, a German researcher said on Monday. The study is important because it is one of the largest of its kind to investigate whether measuring such tumor cells can help predict the chances of cancer returning, said Dr. Julia Jueckstock.

September 24, 2007

Men and women may need different heart treatments

By Reuters Health

VIENNA (Reuters), Sep 4 - The same invasive treatments for acute heart problems that can save lives in men may actually harm women, although reasons for this are unclear, researchers told the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) annual meeting on Monday. Study participants were divided into two equal groups and either given a routine invasive heart x-ray, followed by a heart procedure if needed, or simply monitored and only x-rayed if they showed symptoms.

September 3, 2007

Breast cancer-involved sentinel nodes often contain micrometastases

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 15 - Twenty-three percent of breast cancer patients with an involved sentinel lymph node have a sentinel node that contains micrometastases, according to a report in the August 1st issue of Cancer. Sixteen percent of patients have a sentinel node containing submicrometastases.

August 14, 2007

Aurora breast MRI goes mobile in Italy

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Aurora Imaging Technology of North Andover, MA, said its mobile Aurora 1.5-tesla dedicated breast MRI system is heading for Italy.

August 8, 2007

Decision rules useful for selecting women for bone mineral density testing

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 1 - Four previously validated decision rules are useful in clinical practice for identifying postmenopausal women likely to have osteoporosis who should undergo bone mineral density (BMD) screening, Spanish researchers report in the June issue of the Journal of Rheumatology.

July 31, 2007

Additional double reading of screening mammograms boosts accuracy

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 26 - Double reading of mammograms by radiologic technologists in addition to double reading by radiologists -- i.e., quadruple reading -- can improve breast cancer detection without substantially increasing referral rates, Dutch researchers report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for August 1st.

July 25, 2007

Breast cancer target 'failing patients' in U.K.

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), Jul 13 - An increasing number of women with breast cancer are waiting too long to see a specialist doctor because of problems caused by a government target, research published on Friday said. Under NHS guidelines introduced in 1999, all patients with suspected breast cancer should be seen by an expert within two weeks of being referred by a general practitioner in a bid to cut long waiting lists and delays in treatment

July 12, 2007

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