Womens Imaging: Page 61

Swedish team finds DBT & mammo detect same tumor subtypes

By Kate Madden Yee

Swedish researchers have found digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and digital mammography seem to detect cancers of a similar biologic profile. Their findings were published online on 3 September by Radiology.

September 4, 2019

Researchers to study media coverage of 'overdiagnosis' tests

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers from Australia plan to explore media coverage of the benefits and harms of medical testing that they believe may lead to overdiagnosis in healthy individuals, according to a protocol published online on 24 August in BMJ Open.

September 2, 2019

ESC: Cancer cases rise in developed world

By Philip Ward

Fresh statistics presented at this week's European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress in Paris confirm that cancer is now the leading cause of death in high-income countries, while heart disease burden persists in less prosperous countries.

September 2, 2019

Researchers to study media coverage of 'overdiagnosis' tests

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers from Australia plan to explore media coverage of the benefits and harms of medical testing that they believe may lead to overdiagnosis in healthy individuals, according to a protocol published online on 24 August in BMJ Open.

August 26, 2019

Thieves target mobile breast screening unit

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Thieves stripped a mammography van of copper cable in the city of Perth in Western Australia, forcing the cancellation of breast screening services on a day devoted to cancer awareness, according to an article on the website WAtoday.

August 22, 2019

IT error leads to cancer misdiagnoses in Scotland

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

More than 300 patients being cared for at the National Health Service (NHS) Forth Valley's Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, U.K., were wrongly informed they had cancer due to an IT error, according to a report posted on 22 August by DigitalHealth.

August 22, 2019

Is DBT cheaper than digital mammography?

By Kate Madden Yee

Scandinavian researchers have conducted a large cost-effectiveness study comparing digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) with digital mammography. They published their findings online on 9 August in the European Journal of Health Economics.

August 19, 2019

Norwegians shine new light on DBT's vast potential

By Kate Madden Yee

Researchers from Oslo have provided fresh evidence that adding digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) to digital mammography in screening yields more cancers in most breast density and patient age groups. They unveiled their results on 13 August in Radiology.

August 19, 2019

U.K. trial explores AI for breast cancer screening

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers from the East Midlands Radiology Consortium, a partnership of seven U.K. National Health Service trusts, are investigating the viability of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into breast cancer screening.

August 18, 2019

Diffusion-weighted imaging of breast begins to come of age

By Edna Astbury-Ward, PhD

Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) of the breast offers enormous future potential as an imaging biomarker, but multicenter trials are essential to validate single-center studies and establish DWI as a useful clinical decision-making tool, according to Dr. Julia Camps-Herrero, president of the European Society of Breast Imaging.

August 18, 2019

Mobile breast screening unit gets hit by hefty parking fees

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Cornwall Council in the U.K. has charged the National Health Service breast screening program substantial parking fees for its mobile screening van, but the charges have now been waived, according to a report posted by CornwallLive.com.

August 15, 2019

Italians find mammography can show cardiovascular disease

By Kate Madden Yee

Italian researchers have found that mammography can be a useful way to test for cardiovascular disease at the same time as screening for breast cancer because it identifies breast arterial calcifications, which have been linked to cardiovascular disease risk. They published their results online on 11 August in the European Journal of Radiology.

August 14, 2019

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